Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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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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A right delayed is a right denied.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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