Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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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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A right delayed is a right denied.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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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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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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.