Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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 ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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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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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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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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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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