"nonviolence first changes the individual."

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Coretta Scott King

#Firsts Quotes #Individual Quotes #Nonviolence Quotes

“There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man”
“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”
“Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them”
“People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.”
“The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God....the capacitating of persons to 'see visions' and 'dream dreams'. .... The birth of the Church is the beginning of the End. ..... The Kingdom of God as the miracle of ocular newness when 'the blind see' makes its impact on history in the creation of a visionary community . [[The tongues were]] the language of the world to come... Therefore in this birth of the Church, the risen and ascended Lord takes to himself a Body on earth with eyes opened by the Spirit to see the future.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.”
“What we love to do we find time to do.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.”

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