JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
inspirational ideas outsiders
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
war home america
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
wisdom brother anger
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...
greatness determined
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
inspirational civil-rights speak
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
suicide exercise past
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.
life motivational wisdom
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
night effort sunrise
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
brotherhood gold silver
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
age poverty curse
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
motivational respect kings
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
change kings people
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
covered-up evil slavery
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
morning reality quality
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.