Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Deep
  • Spirit
  • Resistance

• There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Change
  • Ideas
  • Resistance

• I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Political
  • Party

• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Game
  • Now
  • Resistance

• I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Pick
  • Good Will
  • Outfits

• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Small
  • Resistance

• Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Change
  • Things
  • Resistance

• I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Help
  • Respect

• Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Political
  • Growing
  • Lost

• EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Trying
  • Resistance

• The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Path
  • Resistance

• Out of resistance comes strength.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strength
  • Resistance

• The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Habit
  • Resistance

• Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Pray
  • Resistance
  • Miracles

• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Resistance
  • Germany
  • Stopping

• The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Path
  • Motivational

• Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its the earth's flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Air
  • Hard
  • Responsible

• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Fighting
  • Artist
  • Victory

• All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Punishment
  • Resistance

• Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Terror
  • Negro
  • St. Louis

• Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • She
  • Power
  • Scary

• This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  

  Rumi
  • Silence
  • Move
  • Died

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

  

  Kabir
  • Reality
  • Water
  • Forest

• By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Resistance
  • Negro
  • Good Will