In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. here are a few of my favorite quotes:

1.  If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, “Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”

2.  Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

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

4.  “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

5.  Cowardice asks the question – is it safe?
Vanity asks the question – is it popular?
Expediency asks the question – is it political?
But conscience asks the question – is it right?

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

6.   A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

These are but a few of the most insirational quotes from MLK.  What are your favorites?