We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere 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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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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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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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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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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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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