Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Help
  • Suffering
  • End

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Day
  • Suffering

• Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Me
  • Suffering

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Dad

• Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.

  

  John Requa

• Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit

  

  Buster Keaton
  • Bad
  • Marriage
  • Habit

• In: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, 4/SILENCE

  

  John Cage
  • Music
  • Future
  • Silence

• I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Happy
  • Boy
  • Fire

• My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judge
  • Give
  • Excuse

• Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Suffering
  • Technique
  • Nonviolence