If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne 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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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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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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 accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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