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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated the third Monday of every January — for 2007, MLK Day will be on January 15th.  Check out Top Pun’s Martin Luther King, Jr. store with 55 Martin Luther King designs, featuring 38 famous MLK quotes (below).  Each MLK design is available on buttons, T-shirts, bumper stickers, stickers, mini-posters, coffee mugs, mouse pads, and more.

 

Famous Martin Luther King Quotes:

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 A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

A right delayed is a right denied.

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

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be…The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

The time is always right to do what is right.

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.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

Without justice, there can be no peace. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

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Other Great Dr. Martin Luther King Day Designs:

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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Peace – Justice – Is It Just a Day Off?

Martin Luther King, Jr. Road - A Road Less Traveled

Martin Luther King, Jr. WAY - More Than Just a Street

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Prophet of Peace and Justice

Got MLK? (got milk parody)

His Spirit Lives On - Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Just Duet - Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi

Keep the Dream Alive (King picture)

Let Freedom Ring (King picture)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Picture

Martin Luther King, Jr. Picture with African American colors

MLK does a body of good

Peace Sign - Got MLK?

Peace Sign - Got MLK? with African American colors

Peace Sign made with small Martin Luther King, Jr. Pictures and African American colors

Peace Sign with Martin Luther King, Jr. Picture

Peace Sign with Martin Luther King, Jr. Picture and African American colors

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