"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
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"When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
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"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
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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?'"
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"We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free."
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"Unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
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"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
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"So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications."
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"The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful."
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."
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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
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