Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRBe the peace you wish to see in the world.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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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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