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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRBut I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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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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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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An 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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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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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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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 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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