Will Quotes

It is one thing for a white person of good will in the North to rise up with righteous indignation when a bus is burned in Anniston, Alabama, with freedom riders, or when a nasty mob assembles around a University of Mississippi, and even goes to the point of killing and injuring people to keep one Negro out of the university, or when a Negro is lynched or churches burned in the South; but that same person of good will must rise up with the same righteous indignation when a Negro in his state or in his city cannot live in a particular neighborhood because of the color of his skin, or cannot join a particular academic society or fraternal order or sorority because of the color of his or her skin, or cannot get a particular job in a particular firm because her happens to be a Negro.

I am absolutely convinced that there are hundred and thousands, nay millions of white people of good will in the South, but most of them are silent today because of fear - fear of political, social and economic reprisal.

The grim and tortured struggle of Negroes to win their own freedom is an epic of battle against frightful odds. If we have failed to do enough, it was not the will for freedom that was weak, but the forces against us which were too strong.

But why is God so slow in conquering the forces of evil? Why does not God break in and smash the evil schemes of wicked men?...We are responsible human beings, not blind automatons; persons, not puppets.

God cannot at the same time impose his will upon his children and also maintain his purpose for man.

Within the white majority there exists a substantial group who cherish democratic principles above privilege and who have demonstrated a will to fight side by side with the Negro against injustice. Another and more substantial group is composed of those having common needs with the Negro and who will benefit equally with him in the achievement of social progress.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

I'm gonna live till I die.

You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

There is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.