"I am living testimony to the moral..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
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“Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.”
“Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.”
“Great anger and violence can never build a nation.”
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“It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.”
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.”