Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Wisdom   
Religion   
Science   
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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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Love & Romance   
Conflict   
Revenge   
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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War   
Peace   
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The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
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Freedom   
Justice   
Discrimination   
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
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Peace   
Justice   
Struggle   
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Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
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Life   
Action   
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Power   
Nation   
Spiritual   
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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Freedom   
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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Power   
Good   
Morality   
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
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Fate & Destiny   
Justice   
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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Action   
Silence   
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Justice   
Work: Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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Reality   
Morality   
Spiritual   
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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.
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Creativity   
Good   
Nation   
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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?"
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Good   
Encouragement   
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Hate   
Spiritual   
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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.
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Crime   
Nation   
Discrimination   
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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Community   
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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.
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Adversity   
Just   
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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Leadership   
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