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Seek Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
- Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
- 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 Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes…
- 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…
- A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and…
- 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…
- Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand…
- Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to…
- As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with…
- Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
- I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for…
- Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of…
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- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To seek the highest good is to live well. — Saint Augustine
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. — Anita Baker
- I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair,… — Amy Adams
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar