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Beggar Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces…
- True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved.…
- True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
- On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day…
- We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon…
- A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more…
More Beggar Quotes
- Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our… — David Jeremiah
- Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda
- There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus
- Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do… — John G. Lake
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
- Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley
- The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at… — Mary McCarthy
- A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams
- Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so… — Andre Gide
- Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of… — Anzia Yezierska
- Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O… — Swami Vivekananda