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Martin Luther King Jr97 quotes“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Find a voice in a whisper.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr 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.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr There is no gain without struggle.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr 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.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr 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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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
SenecaSeneca The purest form of joy comes to us in ordinary moments, and those moments can happen any place where gratitude is alive.
Brene BrownBrene Brown Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
SenecaSeneca Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Robin WilliamsRobin Williams Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
Dr. SeussDr. Seuss There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
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