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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWhenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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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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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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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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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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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 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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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