No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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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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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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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