The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRAn individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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A lie cannot live.
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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.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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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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One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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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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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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