Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe 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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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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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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A right delayed is a right denied.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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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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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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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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 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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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