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Merely Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely…
- The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A…
- The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
- 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…
- We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind...…
- Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
- We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong.…
- [I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid…
- We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
- 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…
- Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- 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…
- True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer…
- And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still…
- Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy…
- 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…
- A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
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