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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

 

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When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous -- a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change -- and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it -- at which point they can become human too

 

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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

 

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It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

 

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He drew a circle that shut me out --
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in

 

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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.



Henry Miller:

 

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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

 

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Listen to your enemy, for God is talking.

 

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

 

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

 

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We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

 

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

 

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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies

 

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

 

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

 

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I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

 

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

 

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

 

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Last guys don't finish nice.

 

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.