Some famous quotations about peace, tolerance and non violence.

1. FAMOUS QUOTES
CITAS CÉLEBRES
30th January 2013
Peace and Non-violence Day

2. MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.
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US BLACK CIVIL RIGHT
LEADER & CLERGYMAN
(1929 – 1968)
NOBEL PEACE
PRIZE 1964
Photograph by Nobel Foundation (http://nobelprize.org/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

3. “Darkness cannot drive out
darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate:
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only love can do that.”
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"La oscuridad no puede expulsar la
oscuridad,
sólo la luz puede hacerlo.
El odio no puede expulsar el odio,
sólo el amor puede hacerlo."

4. “I have decided to stick to
love...Hate is too great a
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burden to bear.”
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“He decidido apegarme al
amor….. El odio es un peso
demasiado grande de soportar”

5. “We must learn to live
together as brothers or perish
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together as fools.”
Speech at St. Louis, 22 March, 1964
“Debemos aprender a vivir
juntos como hermanos o perecer
juntos como tontos”

6. “People fail to get along because they
fear each other; they fear each other
because they don't know each other; they
don't know each other because they have
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not communicated with each other, they
cannot communicate because they are
separated.”
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958).
“Las personas se odian porque se temen; se
temen porque no se conocen; no se conocen
porque no se saben comunicar; no se saben
comunicar porque se hallan separadas.”

7. “The ultimate weakness of violence
is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to
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destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,
it multiplies it.”
“La última debilidad de la violencia es que es
una espiral descendente, engendrando lo
mismo que busca destruir. En lugar de debilitar
el mal, lo multiplica.”

8. “Through violence you may murder
the liar, but you cannot murder the
lie, nor establish the truth. Through
violence you may murder the hater,
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but you do not murder hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate. So it
goes. .. Returning violence for
violence multiplies violence, adding
deeper darkness to a night already
devoid of stars... ”
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, pp. 62–63
(1967).

9. “ A través de la violencia puedes matar al
mentiroso, pero no podrás matar la mentira
ni restablecer la verdad. A través de la
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violencia puedes matar al que odias, pero no
puedes matar el odio. De hecho, la violencia
hace simplemente crecer el odio. Y esto
continua… Devolver la violencia con
violencia multiplica la violencia, añadiendo
una oscuridad todavía más profunda a una
noche ya sin estrellas.”

10. “We have learned to fly the air
like birds and swim the sea like
fish, but we have not learned the
simple art of living together as
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brothers.”
Martin Luther King's Nobel Lecture , December 11, 1964
“Hemos aprendido a volar como los
pájaros y a nadar como los peces,
pero no hemos aprendido el sencillo
arte de vivir juntos como hermanos.”

11. “He who passively accepts evil is as much
involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate
it. He who accepts evil without protesting
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against it is really cooperating with it.”
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin
Luther King, Jr., pp. 429
“Quien acepta pasivamente el mal es tan
responsable como el que lo comete. Quien ve
el mal y no protesta, ayuda a hacer el mal”

12. “Nonviolence means avoiding not only
external physical violence but also
internal violence of spirit. You not only
refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to
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hate him.”
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“La no violencia implica evitar no sólo la
violencia física externa, sino también la
violencia interna del espíritu. Consiste no
sólo en negarte a disparar a un hombre,
sino en negarte a odiarlo”

13. “Peace is not merely a distant
goal that we seek, but a means
by which we arrive at that
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goal.”
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
“La paz no es un objetivo distante
que perseguimos, sino un medio
por el que llegamos a ese
objetivo.”

14. “Injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere.”
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In his letter from the Birmingham, Alabama, jail
“La injusticia en cualquier lugar,
es una amenaza para la justicia en
todos los lugares”.

15. “We may have all come on
different ships, but we're in
the same boat now. ”
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(unsourced)
“Cada uno de nosotros puede haber
llegado en un barco diferente, pero
ahora estamos todos en el mismo
bote.”

16. Life's most persistent and
urgent question is, 'What are
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you doing for others?'
“La pregunta más persistente y
urgente de esta vida es “¿Qué estás tú
haciendo por los demás?”

17. “I HAVE A DREAM....
This historic speech was delivered by
M.L. King Jr. in front of the Lincoln
Memorial on August 28, 1963. The
speech advocates racial harmony during
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the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom.
“I have a dream ……”(full speech) from
the The U.S. National Archives and
Records Administration.
Audio recording
Video ( part 1 of 2 )
“ Yo tengo un sueño…”
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons from
the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division

18. Mohandas
Karamchand
Gandhi
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aka
Mahatma
GANDHI
(1869-1948).
Photograph by Vyankappa Kaushik (1890–1988), Counsic Brothers (gandhiserve.org (PEMG1929505003)

19. “There is no Way to Peace
…. Peace is the Only Way.”
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No hay camino para la paz. La
paz es el único camino.

20. “If we do an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth, we will be a
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blind and toothless nation.”
“Si respondemos ojo por ojo y diente
por diente, todos terminaremos ciegos
y sin dientes”.

21. “ The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
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Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.”

22. “Las raíces de la violencia:
riqueza sin trabajo;
placer sin conciencia;
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conocimiento sin carácter;
comercio sin moral,
ciencia sin humanidad;
adoración sin sacrificio;
política sin principios”

23. “Violence is a weapon of the
weak; non-violence takes
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strength.”
“ La violencia es el arma del
débil; la no violencia lo es del
fuerte.”

24. “There are many causes I would
die for. There is not a single
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cause I would kill for.”
“Hay mil razones por las que
moriría mas ninguna sola por la
que mataría”

25. “Love is the strongest force the
world possesses and yet it is
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the humblest imaginable.”
“El amor es la mayor fuerza
del mundo y sin embargo la
más humilde.”

26. “I object to violence because
when it appears to do good, the
good is only temporary; the evil
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it does is permanent.”
“Me opongo a la violencia
porque cuando parece causar el
bien éste sólo es temporal, el
mal que causa es permanente.”

27. “Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
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Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”

28. “Tus creencias se convierten en tus pensamientos.
Tus pensamientos se convierten en tus palabras.
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Tus palabras se convierten en tus acciones.
Tus acciones se convierten en tus hábitos.
Tus hábitos se convierten en tus valores.
Tus valores se convierten en tu destino”.

29. “Non-violence, which is the quality
of the heart, cannot come by an
appeal to the brain.”
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“La no violencia, que es una
cualidad del corazón, no puede
surgir mediante una apelación al
cerebro.”

30. “When I despair, I remember that all
through history the way of truth and love
has always won. There have been tyrants
and murderers and for a time they seem
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invincible but in the end, they always fall --
think of it, ALWAYS!”
“Cuando me desespero, recuerdo que durante toda
la historia el camino de la verdad y el amor siempre
ha ganado. Han habido tiranos y asesinos y por
tiempo han parecido invencibles pero al final,
siempre caen - piensa en ello, ¡siempre!”

31. “Utiliza la verdad como si fuera tu
yunque, a la no violencia como tu
martillo, y todo lo que no resista la
prueba cuando sea llevado al yunque
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de la verdad y sea percutido con la no
violencia, recházalo.”
“Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your
hammer and anything that does not stand
the test when it is brought to the anvil of
truth and hammered with nonviolence,
reject it.”

32. A season for
PEACE,
TOLERANCE
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and
NON VIOLENCE.
REFLECT
UPON THEM!!

33. Un periodo para
la PAZ,
la TOLERANCIA
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y
la NO VIOLENCIA.
PIENSA EN ELLO!!

34. MAFR
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