A lie cannot live.
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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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