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Social Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism…
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure…
- Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
- A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to…
- One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
- I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are…
- If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of…
- A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of…
- In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a…
- The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It…
- History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad…
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the…
- Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time…
- Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
- There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a…
- 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…
- I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements…
- Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
- We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments.…
- When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes…
- Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block…
- A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society…
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