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Child Labor - Quotes MLK and Iqbal
1. Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
Interpretation by Riptides
Life by Iqbal Masih
2. A1. "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency
asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is
it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it
because one's conscience tells one that it is right."
A2. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
A3. “I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he
will“Nothinghe all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
die for, in isn’t fit to live.”
conscientious stupidity.”
3. B1.
“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring
contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look
across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge
sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits
out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say:
"This is not just."”
B2.
“Nothing in thethe worldwillmore dangerous than sincere ignorance and
B3. “In all end, we is remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends.” caught up with that which is right and they
conscientious stupidity.”
“When people get
are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory?”
4. C1. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and
bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of
hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil
men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to
bring into being a real order of justice.”
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
C2. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
conscientious stupidity.”
matter.” quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
C3. “The
5. D1. “In a real sense all life is interrelated, all humanity is caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, united in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to
be until you are what you
D2. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
D3. “Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in
the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
6. E1. ”Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our
salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and
relationship to mankind.”
E2. “The time is always right to do what is right”
E3. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or
in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”