Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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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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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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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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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We must substitute courage for caution.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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