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I marveled again at the power of the federal government whose presence stood between us and another massacre.

— Maurice Davis Brotherhood Postponed (1965)

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I keep thinking what happens when the power of love is twisted into the love of power.

I realize that it is a dangerous practice, perhaps even subversive, to talk about brotherhood in March.

Brotherhood Postponed (1965)

Five, the instilling of fear, hatred, and suspicion of everyone outside the camp, of the entire outside world in order to keep the victims in line.

Address on the Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)

I am a Jew, and I am a Rabbi, and I cherish — as do my people — the grandeur of the First Amendment.

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When King speaks, you are not an audience. You are participants. And when he finished we were ready to march.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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