Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-01-19 Jan 19, 2005The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart MillThe things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiThe best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Jan 18, 2005We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'~ Bishop Desmond TutuThe life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.~ Frederick DouglassMan's character is his fate.~ Heraclitus 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print