Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTake the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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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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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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