Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIn the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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