"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.“
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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?'"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
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-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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