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Society Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey…
- A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages…
- 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…
- We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
- True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces…
- 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.
- The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually…
- Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than…
- It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and…
- When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,
- In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man…
- We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in…
- But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life…
- Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt…
- The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be…
- The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths…
- I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro…
- And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has…
- It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without,…
- One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is…
- It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white…
- We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered…
- 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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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi