The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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A lie cannot live.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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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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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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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