When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGNelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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