If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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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.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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 time is always right to do the right thing.
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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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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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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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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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A lie cannot live.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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