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 JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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