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- I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- 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…
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely…
- You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
- Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of…
- I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because…
- We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case…
- It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is…
- A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We…
- Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day
- By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
- 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…
- [E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
- We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our…
- 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…
- But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the…
- I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a…
- The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert…
- Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.... when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response…
- I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to…
- 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…
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
- Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who…
- I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to…
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