There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRA 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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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