Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression andviolence without resorting to oppression and violence.
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We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ... 'Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.'Martin Luther King Jr.
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right.
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Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illuminates it.
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The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideas hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.
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