We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRI have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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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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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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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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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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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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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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