I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere 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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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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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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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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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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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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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