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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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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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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.