Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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A lie cannot live.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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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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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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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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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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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great 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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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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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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