Quotes about Sacrifice
The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Daddy," the boy said, "I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will sneak off. If you think I deserve to be punished for that, I'll just have to take the punishment. For, you see, I'm not doing this only because I want to be free. I'm doing it also because I want freedom for you and Mama, and I want it to come before you die.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To believe in nonviolence does not mean that violence will not be inflicted upon you. The believer in nonviolence is the person who will willingly allow himself to be the victim of violence but will never inflict violence upon another.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
What we do to the animals is perhaps their hell
— Arthur Schopenhaur
They convinced me meaning they had dragged her 4'10 Black Woman's frame over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval until she let go the first real power she ever had and lined her own womb with cement to make a graveyard for our children.
— Audre Lorde