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(39 votes)   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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(39 votes)   The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

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(38 votes)   A lie cannot live.

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(38 votes)   Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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(37 votes)   I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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(37 votes)   I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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(37 votes)   Seeing is not always believing.

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(37 votes)   The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

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(37 votes)   The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

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(36 votes)   A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

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(36 votes)   All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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(36 votes)   I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

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(36 votes)   I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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(36 votes)   Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and... when they fail to do this purpose they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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(36 votes)   Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

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