Martin Luther King Jr. Day

While I’m not American (American understood as citizen of the United States of America), I have followed US history relatively well, particularly when it comes to human rights. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most famous American civil rights advocates, and Nobel Prize for Peace winner in 1964. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday of every January, and I just wanted to remember him on this post. Below are a few of his quotations.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

And the one that really touches me profoundly:

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.