Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Variant: We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution", sermon at the National Cathedral, 31 March 1968, published in A Testament of Hope (1986)
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 18.
So don't worry if now your time is bad it's making you strong so nothing can effect you in future
“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1939) American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist
Source: Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Speech in Boston (2002)
Context: Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.
Malcolm Azania book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 56 “At Last, the Box, Explained” (p. 319)
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
