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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNot everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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 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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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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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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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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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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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