We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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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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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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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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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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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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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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