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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Coretta Scott King

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
I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
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Believe Brother Dreams People Room Sister
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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End Freedom Generation Process Struggle Win Yourself
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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Constitution Democracy Relationship Sex Sexuality Trouble
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
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
If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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Embrace Live Philosophy Place
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Death Freedom Peace Society World
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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History Man Moments Need Spirit
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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Brother Dimension Force International Peace Powerful Unity Woman World
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
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
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Diminish Humanity Ourselves Violence
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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Greatness Hate Hurt Injury

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