Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Martin Luther King

In honor of Martin Luther King’s upcoming celebration, I am commenting on several of his quotes that mean a lot to me.

Cowardice asks the question – is it safe?

Expediency asks the question – is it politic?

Vanity asks the question – is it popular?

But conscience asks the question – is it right?

And there comes a time when one must take a position

that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;

but one must take it because it is right.