The non-violent resistors can summarize their message in the following simple terms: we will take direct action against injustice without waiting for other agencies to act. We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly and cheerfully because our aim is to persuade.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Marion Anne Perrine “Marine” Le Pen — French lawyer and current member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais — was born on this day — August 5, 1968.
She holds both a Master of Laws and a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in criminial law from Panthéon-Assas University.
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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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All social disturbances and upheavals have their roots in crises of individual self-esteem, and the great endeavor in which the masses most readily unite is basically a search for pride.
~ Eric Hoffer
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If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively, and I’m convinced that in many points the people of ill will in the United States have used time much more effectively than the people of good will.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.
~ Edmund Cooper
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I think one of the best ways to face this problem of self-centeredness is to discover some cause and some purpose, some loyalty outside of yourself and give yourself to that something. The best way to handle it is not to suppress the ego but to extend the ego into objectively meaningful channels.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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