It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JREverything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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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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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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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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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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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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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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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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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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