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(31 votes)   Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

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(30 votes)   Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

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(30 votes)   Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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(30 votes)   There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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(30 votes)   We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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(29 votes)   Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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(29 votes)   The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

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(29 votes)   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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(29 votes)   We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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(29 votes)   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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(28 votes)   Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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(28 votes)   I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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(28 votes)   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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(28 votes)   Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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(28 votes)   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.

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