I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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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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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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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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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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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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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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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