Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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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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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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