How should we use our time?

There are many ways to use our time. Does our calendar devote enough attention to the creative?

“We must use time creatively.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

So sad but true.

May God guide is in His path of love.

“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The time is always right to do what’s right.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.“ ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important. “ ~~Martin Luther King, Jr. (Speech at Oberlin College (1964)

“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.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream speech

This says it all.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination – “Play it real pretty”

MLK was an amazing man of God. You never know what your last words will be. I’m sure he didn’t. Like him, they were great.

King’s last words on the balcony prior to his assassination were spoken to musician Ben Branch, who was scheduled to perform that night at an event King was attending: “Ben, make sure you play ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty.”

Then, at 6:01 p.m., April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as King stood on the motel’s second floor balcony. The bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder.

via Martin Luther King, Jr. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.