Yes, You can claim the credit if your income is from capital gain and dividends as long as you meet all the other requirements of the Lifetime learning credit.
The credit is a nonrefundable credit, A nonrefundable credit essentially means that the credit can reduce your tax liability to 0 but can't be used to increase your tax refund or to create a tax refund when you wouldn't have already had one
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