Ed Martin Quotes

There is no gain without struggle.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

You and I, we have moments left to share. You and I, we can make it anywhere. You and I, we belong in each other's arms, there can be no other love. Now I know we can have it all... Forever.

One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that.

I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.

In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

There's no point whining about missed opportunities.