Words matter. These are the best Moral Authority Quotes from famous people such as Masha Gessen, Tom Perez, John Lewis, Pete Buttigieg, Fiona Hill, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority – not the capture of moral high ground.
King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned poverty wages, endured degrading working conditions, and faced brutal beatings when they tried to organize.
1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of the quality of our demand and our sense of moral authority.
When I was deployed, I could feel a full spectrum of American power keeping me safe. And yes, that was the armor on my vehicle; yes, it was the armor on my body; but it was also the armor of some level of American moral authority.
Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has no moral authority.
We have never been colonized, because of our attitude… We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.
Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.
Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.
So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it’s not something that you get up in the morning and say, my God, I feel guilty about what happened to black Americans. Rather it is the fact that in relation to black Americans you lack moral authority.
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People’s Republic of China.
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
I don’t tend to think in terms of a moral authority – be a good boy, do good things – more in terms of what feels right.
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life – on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state – must be cast in the language of human rights.
The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world – probably the most powerful person in the world – not simply in terms of America’s military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.
Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
America doesn’t have the moral authority or weight to tip the scales in this fight between moderate Islam and less tolerant Islam. Muslim communities and Muslim nations need to be leading edge of this fight.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
If your people don’t really believe or respect you, if you don’t have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
I don’t know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can’t deal with corporate welfare.
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan’s first year.
