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Before Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 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…
- Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to…
- Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the…
- We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
- I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive…
- 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…
- Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
- Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this…
- When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a…
- I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she…
- We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic…
- It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without,…
- Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own…
- I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and…
- We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood