True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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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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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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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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A lie cannot live.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.