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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLet us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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