One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWhat affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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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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