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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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 can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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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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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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