Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Lessons in Leadership...
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don's see the whole staircase."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"
"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
"Never to succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everyone blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
"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."
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead and the unborn could do it no better."
The man, the life, the inspiration for leaders and generations to come. We honor and celebrate you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as you inspire us to be the best that we can be in our leadership today.
