True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.