True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRYou are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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A lie cannot live.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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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.
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