No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRI 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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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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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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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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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