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 JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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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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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.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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 may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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