Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money, proposing an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth10 November 1483
CityEisleben, Germany
CountryGermany
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child- bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for
Everything done in the world is done by hope.
Pray, and let God worry.
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
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