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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLet no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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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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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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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A 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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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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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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