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" One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. "

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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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" Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. "

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" Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. "

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

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" A right delayed is a right denied. "

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" History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "

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" Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. "

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

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

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" Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. "

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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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" Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. "

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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. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. "

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" Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. "

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

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" A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. "

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" Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. "

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" A lie cannot live. "

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" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

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" The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. "

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" We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. "

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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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" Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. "

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