SimplyNeo Quotes

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guidedmissiles and misguided men.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.