At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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