Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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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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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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