Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThose 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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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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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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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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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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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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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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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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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