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"Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance."
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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."
"Be faithful anywhere you find yourself."
"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."
"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."
"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."
"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."
"God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full."
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"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."
"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
"It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin."
"I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining."
"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."
"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."
"James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had."
"I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag."
"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
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