Soul Force Quotes

• We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Children, Home

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, www.skeptictank.org. November 17, 1957.

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• Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  March On Washington, Soul, Height

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Friendship, Change

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Justice, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Justice, Path

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Success, Peace, Determination

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  What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

  Ray Charles

  Light, Soul, Rooms

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• So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Reality, Justice

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Luxury, America

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Opportunity, America

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Opportunity, Vaults

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Freedom, July

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Science, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.23, Beacon Press

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Power, Men

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• This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Luxury, Drug, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Real, Dark

  "I Have a Dream". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. August 28, 1963.

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• Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Soul, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Real, Heart, Soul

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