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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Martin Luther King, Jr. – select quotes

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he’s traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain. If I can do my duty as a Christian ought, if I can bring salvation to a world once wrought, if I can spread the message as the master taught, then my living will not be in vain.
~ in a sermon preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church and replayed at his funeral.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~ in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

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.

At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. That will be a day not of the white man, nor of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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March 23, 2011 by kevinstilley

Henry David Thoreau – select quotes

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
~ in Walden

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
~ in Walden

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A man is rich in proportion of the number of things he can afford to let alone.
~ in Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
~ in Reading

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
~ in Solitude

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
~ in On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
~ in Life Without Principle

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries everyday with new experience and character.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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