Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIf 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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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 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 must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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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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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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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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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