Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThose who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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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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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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