Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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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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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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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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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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