![]() ![]() ![]() "I have decided to stick with love.hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King Jr. Hatred darkens life love illuminates it." - Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." - Martin Luther King Jr. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Loving Your Enemies, Strength to Love, 1963 "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Martin Luther King Jr. "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good." - Martin Luther King, As quoted in The Civil Sphere (2006) "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr. " The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing." December 4, 2010.Top 10 Best Martin Luther King Jr. "‘ All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’ (or words to that effect): a Study of a Web Quotation." 2002. Andrews in 1867: "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing." ![]() The Yale Book of Quotations notes the earliest attribution of this quotation to Burke at 1950 (an unsourced attribution in the Washington Post), but the most convincing possible source of the quotation suggested to date is John Stuart Mill, in an address at the University of St. Edmund Burke is the figure most often credited with this quotation, although it has never been found in his writings. This quotation has never been positively attributed to any specific person, at least in the forms above. Curiously, the variant of this quotation almost exclusively attributed to Jefferson is "all tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." Other variants are not attributed to Jefferson at all, but typically to Edmund Burke and others. Status: This quotation has not been found anywhere in Thomas Jefferson's writings. Thomas Jefferson: Papers collection in Hathi Trust Digital LibraryĮarliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson: 2005.Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition.(All that is necessary/needed/required) OR (all it takes) OR (the best way)) for evil to (triumph OR succeed OR prosper OR prevail OR "win in the world" OR "gain a foothold") is for ("good men" OR "good people" OR "good men and women" OR "people of good conscience") to ("do nothing" OR "say nothing" OR "remain silent") Variations: This quotation has hundreds of variations, which generally are composed of some combination of the following components: Quotation: "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." ![]()
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