Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.]Definitions of: descendDefinition: To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.Definition: To enter mentally; to retire. Definition: To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. Definition: To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate. Definition: To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. Definition: To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir. Definition: To move toward the south, or to the southward. Definition: To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. |
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