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“This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.”

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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both…

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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming…

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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

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Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

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We cannot live without our lives

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Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

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Vengeance is not the point: change is.

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A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

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For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

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Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

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Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any…

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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

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It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in…

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Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our…

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I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care…

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Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We…

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If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

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“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was…

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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

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