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Thursday, January 23, 14

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”


“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”


“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Which cuts without

wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that

heals.”


“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated

with each other.”


“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love

can do that.”


“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.”


“We must learn to live together as brothers or

perish together as fools.”


“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.”


“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”


“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”


“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”


“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.”


“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.”


“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”


“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”


“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

everywhere.”


“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”


“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not

the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”


“Free at last! Free at Last! Thank God Almighty we are free at last!”
