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 JRI became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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