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"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story."
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"I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her."
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"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."
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"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."
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"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."
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"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."
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"All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away."
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"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."
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"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."
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"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears."
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"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."
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"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
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"Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences."
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