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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream;
They change not with the changing day;
Love stays forever like a stream
That flows but never flows away;

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

For most of the world, civil and political rights ... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

He knew when he had them, knew when they were getting bored, and knew when to wrap things up.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest ... That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

The man with courage is a majority.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.