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War Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
- The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
- I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
- Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...…
- 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…
- Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of…
- We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,…
- I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
- 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…
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.…
- In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate…
- There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is…
- The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because…
- 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…
- This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
- And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a…
- We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
- I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive…
- The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are…
- If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this…
- We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is…
- Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I…
- I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their…
- There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the…
- A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to…
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- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
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