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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. -- Malcolm X
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. -- Dorothy Day
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. -- Malcolm X
I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. -- Max von Sydow
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace. -- Phil Jackson
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. -- Kenny Rogers
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it. -- John Lydon
To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays. -- Peter Singer
Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ. -- Luiz Felipe Scolari
God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game. -- Dwight Howard
Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though. -- Jim Carrey
I say yes, turn the other cheek, and let me slap your butt again. Forgiveness can be oh so naughty. -- Jarod Kintz
People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too. -- Charles Barkley
They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. -- Ray Stevens
If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek. -- Angela Elwell Hunt
I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.' -- Dorothy Day
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work. -- Alice Bag
If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that. -- Arsene Wenger
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks. -- Richard Peck

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