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 silence is betrayal.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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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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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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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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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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