At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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