Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIn the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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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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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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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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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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.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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True 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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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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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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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