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10 of Martin Luther King Jr’s most tweeted quotes

Twitter takes a mindful pause to honor the impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. every year, but his legacy is evident on many people’s timelines every day. As an icon and activist, Dr. King is an ever present topic of conversation in Tweets.

Twitter looked at how widely his quotes are circulated on Twitter, and found that in the past year alone, there have been over one million Tweets containing the words of the revered civil right leader.

On his birthday, yesterday, they put together the list of 10 of his most Tweeted quotes, starting with his most Tweeted phrase:

This is MLK's most tweeted phrase. Image Credit: QuoteFancy
Image Credit: QuoteFancy

And here are the top ten quotes that continue to live on through Tweets:

  1. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
  2. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
  3. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
  4. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
  5. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
  6. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
  7. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
  8. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
  9. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
  10. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Let’s continue to ring these phrases through our timelines every day as a reminder of the progress we’ve made and the work that still needs to be done.[related-posts]

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