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May Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life.…
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
- May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with…
- I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the…
- The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in…
- Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than…
- It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness…
- Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a…
- It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
- What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.
- There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the…
- I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
- We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.
- 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…
- I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised…
- We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's…
- Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands…
- The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what…
- Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
- The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the…
- Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his…
- I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that,…
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
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