Martin Luther King Quotes

Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

~ Marita Golden

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

~ Sammy Davis Jr.

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.

~ Brandi L. Bates

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

~ Harmon Okinyo