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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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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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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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 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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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