Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNonviolence 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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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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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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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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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