There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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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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 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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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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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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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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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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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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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