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“When you’re young and strong,” he told me, “you can stay alive on your hatred. And I did, for many years.”
“I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.”
the oppressor is also a prisoner of prejudice and narrow-mindedness,
Politics, he said, brings out the worst in men.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one’s opponent.
when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
There is a streak of goodness in men that can be buried or hidden and then emerge unexpectedly.
learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. I felt fear myself more times than I can remember, but I hid it behind a mask of boldness.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
