Quotes about inspirational
inspirational giving-up light
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr.
inspirational rights gains
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
inspirational direct-action issues
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
inspirational strong easter
We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.
inspirational blow jail
Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
inspirational self purification
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.
inspirational mean direct-action
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
inspirational father cities
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
inspirational cities white
I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.
inspirational atlanta birmingham
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
inspirational hometown particular
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
inspirational criticism would-be
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
inspirational acceptance racism
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
inspirational men world
But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
inspirational people littles
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
inspirational height depth
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
inspirational lightning sound
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
inspirational struggle waiting
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
inspirational struggle gains
There is no gain without struggle.
inspirational laughter heart
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
inspirational freedom fear
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
inspirational change time
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
inspirational doors direct-action
The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
inspirational average community
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
inspirational religious responsibility
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
inspirational independent eight
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.
inspirational-life mean ends
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
inspirational brother art
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
inspirational motivational success
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
inspirational peace government
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
inspirational betrayal memorable
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
inspirational death memorable
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
inspirational life compassion
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.