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Accepting Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
- One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
- I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which…
- Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
- To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
- In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a…
- It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
- I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that…
- There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....…
- As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in…
- Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost…
- The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner…
- Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish…
- If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come…
- Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a…
- An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the…
- He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against…
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of…
- We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
More Accepting Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the… — Antonio Banderas
- Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. — Tyra Banks
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams