Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRHatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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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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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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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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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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