One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNot only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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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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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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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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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 end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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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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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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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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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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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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