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MLK Jr: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

Memory forces us to act when indifference is alluring and inertia is tempting.

Mandela: "Any institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose because I will not part with it at any price or under any pressure."

"History has tended to remember the reconciling Mandela and not the fiery freedom fighter of the 1950s and 1960s."

Mother Theresa, in response to criticism over 'give a man a fish vs teaching them to fish': "Ah my God, you should see these people. They have not even the strength to lift a fishing rod, let alone use it to fish. Giving them fish, I help them recover strength for the fishing tomorrow."

on Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "It is a potent reminder that even those who stand in solidarity can almost never free themselves entirely from ingrained bias."

I want to read more about satyagraha. There are so many facets to Indian independence that I am ignorant of.

Gandhi “Only give up a thing when you want another condition so much that the thing has no longer any attraction for you.”

“We admire people of strong convictions. We must give even more admiration to those who manage to hold strong convictions while questioning them, reconsidering them, changing them, and fitting them to tough and different situations they face.”

“We are not the first generation to argue about the legacy of the founders, nor the second, nor the third. The gulf between words and deeds was apparent already when Abraham Lincoln was a young man.”

“The lives of great moral leaders do not remain in the past. They interrogate the present.”