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"Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward."
"My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil."
"Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice."
"It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans."
"...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil."
"I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good."
"I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other."
"Evil thenceforth became my good."
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope."
"These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike."
"If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?"
"There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint."
"He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents."
"We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?"
"The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried."
"Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it."
"We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base"
"Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone."
"It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand."
