True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRHate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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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 must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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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Hate destroys the hater.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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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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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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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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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