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" All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. "

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" Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. "

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" There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. "

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" Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. "

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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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" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. "

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" All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. "

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" Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. "

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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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" I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. "

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