“Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
“In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.”
Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II (1936)
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