I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRHate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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