We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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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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