True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRA 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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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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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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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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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