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 JRWe 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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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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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