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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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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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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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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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A right delayed is a right denied.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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 choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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