(158 quotes found)
“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.”
“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people”
“Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.”
“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
“We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”
“I have a dream.”