MLK quotes
January 18, 2010
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgive
January 17, 2010
“Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.”
- Colossians 3:13
Friends
January 13, 2010
“Friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
- Vannii Arcri
Qualified
January 6, 2010
“There used to be a time when they would say, ‘we don’t have qualified applicants,’ now we have them, so what is the excuse?”
- Rosa Rosales LULAC President
Texas Tech University
December 30, 2009
On Texas Tech today:
“I graduated from TTU back in 1997. Those small, dark spaces really worked for me. I wasn’t an athlete, but I was naughty in that statistics course.” JMD
Go Tech! We will survive.
Relationships
December 29, 2009
“Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.”
- Patricia Fripp
Learning to love
December 23, 2009
“You learn to speak by speaking,
to study by studying,
to run by running,
to work by working;
in just the same way,
you learn to love by loving.”
- St. Francis De Sales
Dreams
December 15, 2009
“It’s all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.”
- Oprah Winfrey
Trusted voices
December 12, 2009
“We feel it’s important for democracy that we have more voices, not fewer. Further consolidation is not good for the country. Our system of broadcasting is set up very clearly as being locally based. That’s its strength.”
– Alan Frank, president of the Washington Post-Newsweek station group and chairman of the Network Affiliated Stations Alliance (2003)
“Soon each city will want its very own Larry King, Walter Cronkite and Oprah Winfrey.” JMD
On work
December 11, 2009
“Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.”
- Jon Madonna
