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🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

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

"You shall everywhere mind the book of the Granth-Sahib as your Guru; whatever you shall ask it will show you."

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

"You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."

"In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion."

"Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there."

"Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828"

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🇺🇸Nannie Helen Burroughs

civil rights movement

1941–2026

"When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change, and growth."

"I believe in obeying the laws of the land. I practice and teach this obedience, since justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice denotes the absence of law."

🇺🇸George Alexander McGuire

"Basaveshwara taught that each person was in direct relationship with God or with destiny and needs no one’s mediation."

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Religion

"I am an organ of the Lord, and sweetly... do I glorify the King, all atremble before Him."

"None should resist the plea that we unite to increase our concern for the welfare and future of our children — the rising generation."

"A theology of interruption demands we attend to the interruption as if the interruption were the real, and the other stuff of our lives a distraction."

"For the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched."

"There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees."

"The Jews talk about "never again."… You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!… "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!"

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🇮🇳Mata Amritanandamayi

Politics

b. 1953

"The Verified Facebook Page of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi"

"Being black in America has little to do with skin color. Being black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are."

"Islam is enough. It is a complete code for modern life"

🇺🇸Richard R. Wright Jr.

Politics

1878–1967

"Negro-Americans will have to fight, but not with bombs, and planes, and guns, but with intelligence, self-confidence, and determination, efficiency, and high moral principles."

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🇺🇸Henry Highland Garnet

Unification movement (Unification Church)

1920–2012

"In daily life, which sex is usually more disruptive or problem-causing? Percentage-wise, it is usually women. What contributes to that? It is mainly because they lack perseverance."

"The White Man does not want to mix, and the Black Man want to be himself, not somebody else. He does not want to mix! Only the boot-licking so called ‘Negro’ comes to another race begging to ‘mix’!"

"No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration."

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🇺🇸Charles Grandison Finney

Politics

1792–1875

"Self-loathing is a natural and a necessary consequence of those intellectual views of self that are implied in repentance."

"It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind."

"You can never enter the kingdom of God with hardness against any one, for God is love, and if you love God you will love one another."

"This society is not hospitable to persons of color, women or left-handed people."

"And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and breast."

"Community cannot feed for long on itself; it can only flourish where always the boundaries are giving way to the coming of others from beyond them — unknown and undiscovered brothers."

"The Christians committed all sorts of atrocities on the Jews by giving them the label “Killers of Christ”. Hitler is not an exception but a culmination of the 2000-year long oppression of the Jews by the Christians."

"Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly."

22 quotes

🇺🇸Hiram Rhodes Revels

Politics

1827–1901

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