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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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A right delayed is a right denied.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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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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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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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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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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