Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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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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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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One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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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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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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