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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.”
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's...”
“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ”
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”
“We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.”
“We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
“Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.”
“Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Ther...”
“Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.”
“Without love benevolence becomes egotism.”
“I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.”
“Riots are the voices of the unheard.”
