Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRA 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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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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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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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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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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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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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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