William Shakespeare wrote, “Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.”

It is difficult to echo with words of a great man. All the quotes not cited below belong to one of my dearest of inspirations, Martin Luther King Jr. Here is a brief history and his incredible words I thought were appropriate.

“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who protested during the Vietnam war against the Vietnam war. He was arrested over 20 times in several states, beaten by police on at least four occasions, his home was bombed and he was finally assassinated by a suspicious lone gunman in 1968.

“I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”

“They have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As T. S. Eliot has said: ‘The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.’”