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Quotes by Leader
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
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"As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision."
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"One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own."
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"What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way."
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"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."
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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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"We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. This may explain the cascading grief that flooded the country in late November. We mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation, but we grieved as well for ourselves because we knew we were sick."
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"When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal."
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"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
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"That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within."
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"There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle."
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
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"The heart of a statesman should be in his head."
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"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
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"How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people."
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"On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."
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"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."
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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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"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."
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"What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?"
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