Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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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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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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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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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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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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