Martin Luther King Jr on freedom
Martin Luther King Jr97 quotes“The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.”
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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