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<p style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">We will never forget
<a href="https://www.biography.com/activist/martin-luther-king-jr"><span style="color:#416ED2">Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s</span></a> trailblazing activism and soaring vision for a just America. After being assassinated on April 4, 1968, we are left with the
eloquence of his words that continue to guide us forward as we strive to become a more perfect union. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Here are 17 inspiring quotes from MLK's famous speeches and writings about education, justice, hope, perseverance and freedom:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—“The Purpose of Education” from
<a href="https://www.morehouse.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#416ED2">Morehouse College</span></a> student newspaper,
<em><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">The Maroon Tiger</span></em>, 1947<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral
acts. Be careful, 'brethren!' Be careful, teachers!” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—“The Purpose of Education” from Morehouse College student newspaper,
<em><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">The Maroon Tiger</span></em>, 1947<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—<em><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Stride Toward Freedom</span></em>, 1958<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—“A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart” sermon, August 30, 1959<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—<em><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Strength to Love,</span></em> 1963<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—"<a href="https://www.history.com/news/kings-letter-from-birmingham-jail-50-years-later" target="_blank"><span style="color:#416ED2">Letter From
Birmingham Jail</span></a>," April 16, 1963<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment
of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—"Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—"<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/i-have-a-dream-speech" target="_blank"><span style="color:#416ED2">I Have A Dream"
speech</span></a>, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling
off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—"I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
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<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—<em><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Strength to Love</span></em>, 1963<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is
stronger than evil triumphant." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“The time is always right to do what is right.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—<a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#416ED2">Oberlin College</span></a> commencement speech, 1965<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into
the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life
by clinging to archaic thinking.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—<em><span style="font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?</span></em>, 1967<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size
that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, October 26, 1967<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of
victory.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—“I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">“All we say to America is, ‘Be true to what you said on paper.’ If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe
I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom
of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.” </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—“I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop... I've looked over
and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." </span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif">—“I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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