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Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality
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We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy
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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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The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars
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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
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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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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' by
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Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured
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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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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, 'Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.'
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I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
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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 the law.
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