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Old Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors…
- And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a…
- 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...…
- The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
- The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform…
- The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated…
- He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with…
- That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
- And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every…
- We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make…
- But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this…
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