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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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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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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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