Quotes related to Micah 6:8
There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.
- Martin Luther King III
We need all races of men, and decent women, to stand up for what's right, drop anger, and live upright.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
- Jesse Jackson
What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
- Tony Campolo
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
- Pope John Paul II
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
- Dag Hammarskjold
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
- Ronald Reagan