Find a voice in a whisper.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIt 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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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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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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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The time is always right to do the right thing.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.