Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King Jr.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world
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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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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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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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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.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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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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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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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
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