Twitter has been alight with users’ favourite MLK quotes, so here are seven of the best we’ve come across this afternoon.
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - #MLK
— NBA (@NBA) January 21, 2013
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." #mlk
— Sarah ☮ & █▄❤️╲╱☰ Ⓥ🐘🐯🐬🐷🐥🐄 (@zbleumoon) January 18, 2013
"It is no longer the choice between violence and non-violence in this world. It is non-violence or non-existence." MLK Jr, 3 April 1968.
— Paula Higgins (@justamusicprof) January 21, 2013
"A nation that continues...to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." -- MLK
— Tim Shorrock (@TimothyS) January 21, 2013
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr.
— RonMillerJr. (@RonaldMillerjr) January 21, 2013
And of course we can’t leave one of the most famous speeches of all time out.
It never loses its magic.