It was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, in America on Monday. I was taking a look back at some of the most powerful and stirring words spoken by this civil rights leader. He has long gone, but his words still speaks if not lauder and his dreams are pretty much alive and well! For more quotes you can check at answers.com

“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”

“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.”

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

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

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

“Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

More MLK, Jr. quotes at Answers.com.