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 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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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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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