The wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For three decades, Americans have officially celebrated the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Baptist minister who led the Civil Rights Movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Medal of Honor. He is remembered for his nonviolent civil disobedience to protest racial discrimination and for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He is also known for his skills as one of our country's great orators. Below is a collection of some of his best loved quotations, as assembled by Inc. Magazine last year on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. You can read the complete list here.

1. "Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase." 
2. "There comes a time when silence is betrayal." 
3. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." 
4. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." 
5. "Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
6. "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." 
7. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that." 
   
8. "Let no man pull you so low as to hate him." 
   
9. "That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
10. "There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."