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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Science investigates - religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. 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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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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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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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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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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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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Seeing is not always believing.
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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