A right delayed is a right denied.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIt does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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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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.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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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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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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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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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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