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 JRShallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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There 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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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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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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We must substitute courage for caution.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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