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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue 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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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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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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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