Martin Luther King Jr Posters

Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with 30 inspirational quote posters.

This resource is a powerful tool to use in your classrooms, and can stimulate many interesting and inspiring topics and discussions with students about the life of Martin Luther King Jr, the American Civil Rights Movement, as well as issues surrounding race, justice and equality.

They can make a striking bulletin board or hallway display and can also be used as writing prompts and will help promote critical thinking, diversity awareness, personal reflection and character education.

Quotes included are:

1. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. 

2. A riot is the language of the unheard.

3. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

4. 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.

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

6. Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

7. I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. 

8. I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

9. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

10. If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

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

12. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

13. Intelligence plus character - that is the
goal of true education.

14. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

15. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

16. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

17. Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

18. No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

19. Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

20. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

21. People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

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

23. The time is always right to do what is right.

24. 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.

25. There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

26. There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

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

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

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

30. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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I hope these posters provide inspiration and motivation for your students!

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