I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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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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It 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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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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A lie cannot live.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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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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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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