"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
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"Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life."
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"Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people."
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"Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people."
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"Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more."
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"When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house."
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"I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart."
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"There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement."
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"To find people who don't want anything is rare."
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"If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently."
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"Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly."
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"I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter."
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"I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream."
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"What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect."
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"If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me."
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"Violence is not more efficient than non-violence."
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"Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly."
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"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."
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"We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk."
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"My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do."
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