Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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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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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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