"The more I thought about human nature,..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
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“A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.”
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
“If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.”
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“How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
“People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.”