Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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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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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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