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Violent Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is…
- 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…
- We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.
- 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,…
- 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…
- But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this…
- We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
- Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of…
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura
- I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their… — Joseph Addison
- God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler
- No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have… — Annie Besant
- The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,… — Tony Blair
- Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying… — Jerry Brown