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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."	Politics
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."	Miscellaneous
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."	Morality
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."	Life & Death
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."	Writing
"Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail."	Race
"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."	Miscellaneous
"True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart."	War & Peace
"Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."	Justice
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."	Charity
"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."	Life & Death
"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."	Miscellaneous
"A lie cannot live."	Truth & Lies
"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."	Race
"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."	Race
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."	God

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