"The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his oppo...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~












We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...
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