If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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