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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIt 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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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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.
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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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