Forum Post: Quotes to Consider
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 10:41 p.m. EST by PaulK
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -MLK
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. -MLK
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- MLK
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. - Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. -Gandhi
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. -Malcolm X
The Power is in the people, Politics we address. Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic and when you get stranded and things don't go the way to plan it. Get in a position making a difference.-2Pac
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.- Lincoln
We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.- 2Pac
"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. "
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Raoul Vaneigem
Not for nothing, but do you notice how each one of them was shot to death? 2Pac being the only not one not shot specifically for what he was saying...at least in a political sense.
Thats a great observation! In regards of 2Pac, it is clear that most of the reason why he was shot was for political reasons. Unlike many of the rappers in the 90s, he was most critical on political acts especially for unwrongful arrests. He has so many quotes within his songs about politics and justice. Hes a great source on injustice in America in many regards.