The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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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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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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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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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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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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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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