At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWhenever 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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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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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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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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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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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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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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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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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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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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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