Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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