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MLK -- 31 Days of Peace, Kindness and Justice

Many people have worked for and are still striving to create a world of compassion, kindness, inclusiveness and non-violence.

These 31 quotes can be used for discussion or read by students at the start of each day in January in the classroom or over a public address system. Or use them for any month of the year when working on a peace project.

Research the authors and discover what their contribution was to creating a peaceful society.

  1. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  2. "If we are going to bring about peace in the world, we have to begin with the children." Mahandas Ghandi

  3. "All men are brothers." Jean Henri Dunant

  4. "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. a part of the main." John Donne 

  5. "In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." Dorothea Dix
  6. "Make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy." St. Francis of Assisi
  7. "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium." That is the Latin inscription on the Nobel Peace Prize gold medal, which means "for peace and brotherhood of people." The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person(s) who in the past year has done the "most or the best work for brotherhood among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace."
  8. "Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve...You only need a heart full of grace; a soul grounded by love." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  9. "The fruit of silence is PRAYER. The fruit of prayer is FAITH. The fruit of faith is LOVE. The fruit of love is SERVICE. The fruit of service is PEACE." The Simple Path Mother Teresa of Calcutta
  10. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." Aseop
  11. "That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth
  12. "Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." George Sand
  13. "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe
  14. "Whatever you may do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it." Mahandas Ghandi
  15. "This is our cry, this is our prayer; peace in the world." Inscription written by the friends of Sadako's Saski's, engraved on her statue at Hiroshima Peace Park.
  16. "Love is doing small things with great love." Mother Teresa
  17. "The future, if only we can learn to will it, shall belong to neither war, no division, nor hatred. It shall belong to peace, to work, and to arbitration." Fédéric Passy
  18. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  19. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes
  20. "I refuse to accept the view that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  21. "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." Elie Wiesel
  22. "If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it; you just do it one step at a time." Marion Wright Edelman
  23. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tse
  24. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." Albert Einstein
  25. "Peace is more difficult than war." Aristotle
  26. "The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?" Simone Weil
  27. "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." Confucius
  28. "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold the person down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." Marian Anderson
  29. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  30. "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people." Rosa Parks
  31. "Alone, alone Nobody -- Can make it out here alone.  Maya Angelou

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