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Action Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march...
- Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure…
- We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,…
- We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case…
- We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the…
- Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced…
- The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
- To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
- In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
- It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is…
- There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive…
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
- History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad…
- Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
- Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
- Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you…
- 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....…
- We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence…
- Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for…
- We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is…
- If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to…
- The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize…
- We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of…
- In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West,…
- The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle