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" Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Think

Men

Brainy

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Must

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I Am

Brainy

" I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. "

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God

Know

" Never mistake motion for action. "

" Character is what a man is in the dark. "

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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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Self

Been

Defense

" Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. "

Matsuo Basho

Seek

Footsteps

" Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. "

" Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. "

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Science

Power

Our

" 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. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Small

Acceptance

You

" We must be our own before we can be another's. "

" 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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Without

Unique

Powerful

" I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

Brainy

Just

Experience

" I think; therefore I am. "

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Think

Brainy

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

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Center

Principle

Non-Violence

" The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. "

" 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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Society

White

Born