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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe 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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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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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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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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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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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