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" Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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" We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. "
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" We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. "
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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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" One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. "
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" Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. "
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" Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. "
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" The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. "
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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 riot is the language of the unheard. "
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" Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' "
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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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