"We can't slow up because of our..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.
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“Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.”
“[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.”
“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”
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“Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?”
“Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'”
“Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.”
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“All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.”
“I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.”
“Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.”