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 JRI 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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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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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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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