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Quotes by Leader
"As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"India's strength lies in her villages. Our aim is to bridge the differences between rural and urban India. We want our villages to have all the facilities that are there in the cities."
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"Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."
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"God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able."
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"Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves."
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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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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
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"Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to work to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right."
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"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
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"In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."
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"The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times."
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"Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last."
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"Find a voice in a whisper."
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"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
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"All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses."
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"Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate."
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"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
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"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
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"Action expresses priorities."
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"The amazing aftermath of Birmingham, the sweeping Negro Revolution, revealed to people all over the land that there are no outsiders in all these fifty states of America. When a police dog buried his fangs in the ankle of a small child in Birmingham, he buried his fangs in the ankle of every American. The bell of man's inhumanity to man does not toll for any one man. It tolls for you, for me, for all of us."
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
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"Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering."
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"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
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"Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals."
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"And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
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"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
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