"If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.
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“America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”
“Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”
“You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”
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“To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.”
“Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.”
“Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.”
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“Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.”
“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”
“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”