JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
inspirational death memorable
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
voice government breaking-silence
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
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.
inspiring wisdom hate
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
girl dream boys
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
inspirational life god
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
powerful war greatness
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
white derivatives crime
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
direct-action alive surface
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
life respect men
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
inspirational change sister
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.
life lying acceptance
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
heart creativity creative
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
funny war tomorrow
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.