An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRViolence is not only impractical but immoral.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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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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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 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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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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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