Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Song
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Same
  • Cooperation
  • Google

• I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Convinced

• International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Cooperation
  • International

• Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Long
  • Destroy
  • Cooperation

• I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Education
  • Works
  • Convinced

• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Train
  • Gone
  • Obligation

• Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Model
  • Development
  • Cooperation

• Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Right
  • Obligation

• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Opportunities
  • Obligation

• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • May
  • Humans
  • Littles

• It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Justice
  • Prove
  • Guilt

• We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Trying
  • Confidence
  • Problems

• If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation

• A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Friend
  • Acting
  • Persons

• We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Sea
  • Economy

• I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Ignore
  • Obligation

• She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Knowledge
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  

  Raymond Burr
  • Sometimes
  • Ambition
  • Consequence

• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Obligation
  • Convinced
  • Cooperation