I am not interested in power for power's sake, but... -Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Noth...
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see....
The time is always right to do what is right....
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow....
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it....
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and broth...
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace....
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam....
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows....
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men....

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death....
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grap...
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them....
To seek the highest good is to live well....
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Hea...
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good....
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good....
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another....