I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Nonviolence 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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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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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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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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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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