The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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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.
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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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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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