We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRI became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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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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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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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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