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.
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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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Man 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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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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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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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