Quotes related to Micah 6:8
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
- Rob Bell
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
- Victor Hugo
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
- Abraham Lincoln
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
- Albert Camus
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
- Charles Dickens
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
- Mark Twain
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
- Martin Luther