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" Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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" I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. "

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" A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. "

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" Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. "

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" The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. "

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" I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. "

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" A lie cannot live. "

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" A riot is the language of the unheard. "

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" When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. "

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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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" War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. "

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" Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. "

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" The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. "

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" We must use time creatively. "

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" Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. "

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" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

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" At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. "

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" The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. "

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" The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. "

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" In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "

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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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" That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. "

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" We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. 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. "

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

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" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

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" It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. "

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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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