Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Quotes, Captions, and Meaningful Content Ideas

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

“We can say that our feet are tired, but our souls are rested.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

“World peace through non-violent means is neither absurd or unattainable.”

“We must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding.”

“I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.”

"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."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

“Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.”

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

“We stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.”

"Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

“We are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

"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."

"Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies."

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

"That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies."

“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.”