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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Bent Change Continuous Freedom
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Bad Good Greatest History
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Better Dead Job Life
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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.

Character Critically Education Function
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Die Discovered Fit Live
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Important Life Longevity Quality
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Affects Directly Ought Reality
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Awaiting Burial Concerned Conditions
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Dies Justice Man Refuses
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Death Discouraging Humiliating Limit
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
Because Die Like Lists
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Am Call Features Human
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Essays History Influence Lies
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Country Evaluate Everybody Fact
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Arrive Distant Goal Means
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Demanded Freedom Given Never
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Creative Dire Extremists Kind
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Am I Am Like Perhaps
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Guided Men Misguided Missiles
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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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.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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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.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Churches European Every Exciting
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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A riot is the language of the unheard.

Language Riot Unheard
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

White Death Free Price
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Our life is full of empty space.
Empty Empty Space Full Life
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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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.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Age Beginning Enlightenment Modern
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
Times Truth
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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