If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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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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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 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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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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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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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 you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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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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