80 quotes found
“We must use time creatively.”
“Riots are the voices of the unheard.”
“Without love benevolence becomes egotism.”
“Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.”
“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their i...”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. ”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us....”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else...”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is...”
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ”
“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
