The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lie cannot live.
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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