"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Activism, Violence, Government, Silence, Ethics

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"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."

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"Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice."

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"It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures."

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"The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil."

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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Racism does not need to be fixed, it has to be stopped."

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

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"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive."

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"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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"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

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"It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it."

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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

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"What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way."

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"Find a voice in a whisper."

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