Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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.
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.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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?'
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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.
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.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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