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If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.

Coretta Scott King

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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Each Other Elimination Ignorance Learning Trust
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Advance Human Justice Life
Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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Disappointment Divine Himself Human Man Movement Relative Time
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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Alone Greatness Sacrifice Willing Yourself
Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Diminish Humanity Ourselves Violence
Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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Embrace Love Method Transformation Violence Yourself
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Black Force Myself People Requirement White Wrong
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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Easter Goodness Hope Life Moments
Nelson 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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Character Freedom Nature Prison Violence
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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Blessing Discover God Greatness Life Willing Yourself
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Death Himself Live Man Worth
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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Constitution Form Marriage Sexuality Traditional
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
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Leadership Nation Peace Preparation Strange Talk War
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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Challenge Sign Time Visible
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
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Night Process Time Violence Yourself

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