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Quotes of the Day for 15 January 2005 - Martin Luther King, Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr was born at Atlanta, Georgia on this day in 1929. He was taught to read at home before going to school, and advanced rapidly skipping two grades and entering Morehouse College at age 15. In 1948 he attended Crozer Theological Seminary at Chester, Pennsylvania and began work on his doctorate at Boston University in 1951. Then he had a dream, and was one of those few who visibly changed the world. In addition to his earned doctorate in Systematic Theology, he was awarded twenty honorary doctoral degrees before he was gunned down in 1968.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

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.

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
     - All from Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929 - 1968

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