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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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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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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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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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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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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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