If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.
- Topic: Conflict, Friendship
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
