Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRHate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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 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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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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