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We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
- Topic: Conflict, Love
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
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.
The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
