"When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes."
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"Violence diminishes our humanity."
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"Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally."
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"This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life."
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"I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement."
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"There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens."
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"It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will."
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"I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ."
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"You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America."
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"The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry."
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"The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight."
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"...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality."
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"If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble."
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"How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?"
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"Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in."
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"To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn."
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"We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community."
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"nonviolence first changes the individual."
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"I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people."
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"A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages."
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