Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNonviolence 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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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