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 JRWe have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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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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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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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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