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Understanding Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting…
- Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and…
- Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
- Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
- Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and…
- 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…
- Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
- The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but…
- Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths…
- When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations…
- Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing…
- Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat…
- Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.
- 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…
- If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred,…
- There are mysteries about out love. Things that neither one of us may ever understand because love is an emotion without limit and understanding. We…
More Understanding Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon