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A man can't ride your

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
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Our loyalties must transend our

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.
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Human salvation lies in the

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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Whatever affects one directly, affects

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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Love is the only force

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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One who condones evil is

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
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I submit to you that

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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The question is no longer

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
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We shall have to repent

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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I have almost reached the

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'
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