Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPeople 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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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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 ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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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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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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