"Are you able to accept blows without..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
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“If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.”
“Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.”
“Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.”