Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."

"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

"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."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that."

"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."

"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education."

"I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude."

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls."

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals."

"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."

"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."

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

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