Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-01-17 Jan 17, 2005We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan 14, 2005Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord ActonA free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.~ Henry Steele CommagerFreedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.~ Immanuel Kant Jan 13, 2005Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.~ Thomas A. EdisonOh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?~ Ammon HennacyYou can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.~ Huey P. Newton Jan 12, 2005This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.~ Abraham LincolnThe man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.~ Alexis de TocquevilleThe more laws the more offenders.~ Dr. Thomas Fuller Jan 11, 2005Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.~ Jean-Jacques RousseauLiberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroNo man escapes When freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails; And they who cried: “Appease, Appease!” Are hanged by men they tried to please.~ Hiram Mann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print