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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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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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