I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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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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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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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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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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