True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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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 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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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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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Hate destroys the hater.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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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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