Unarmed Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Unarmed Quotes from famous persons: Bernice King, Giraldus Cambrensis, Tom Brokaw, Angie Thomas, Óscar Arias. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Unarmed Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.

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It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Giraldus Cambrensis

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In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China‘s young to change their nation. He didn’t text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.

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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

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Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

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Communities of color have also had to watch video after video of unarmed black men and women being handled without regard for their lives or well-being. As a black man, I see these images, and I see myself; I wonder whether this will happen to me or one of my loved ones.

Malcolm Jenkins

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An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Mickey Kaus

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We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Rachel Corrie

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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Huey Newton

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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

John Boyle O’Reilly

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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

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It takes minutes to play, but ‘Unmanned’ sticks with you for long after the credits roll. As a part of a two-man team for an unarmed drone, you experience one day in the life of this man who’s tired of staring through the camera of a drone flying around the Middle East and keeping his finger on the trigger.

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I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.

Martin McGuinness

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You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‘shooting an unarmed child,’ when that ‘child’ was beating him bloody.

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From racial profiling and being pulled over just for ‘driving while black’ to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children’s lives are not being valued.