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.
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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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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 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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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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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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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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