"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Diplomacy, Brother, Man, Want

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."

Jack Ma, Chinese Businessman

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"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

Georges Simenon, Belgian Writer

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"The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue."

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Activist

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"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."

Angela Merkel, German Statesman

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"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."

Douglas Feith, American Public Servant

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"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."

Robert Toombs, American Politician

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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

Amos Oz, Israeli Writer

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"Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism."

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"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."

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"It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart."

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"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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"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

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"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 together at the table of brotherhood."

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"I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems."

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"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

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"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."

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"I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government."

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