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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRMorality 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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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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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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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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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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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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Man 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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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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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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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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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