But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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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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We must substitute courage for caution.
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