The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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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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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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There is no gain without struggle.
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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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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