"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

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

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"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

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"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

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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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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

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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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"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

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"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."

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"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."

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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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"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

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"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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