No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe 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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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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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 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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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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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
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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 are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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A lie cannot live.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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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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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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