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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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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