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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRBut I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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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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There is no gain without struggle.
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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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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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