“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“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.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
“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.”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low.”
“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 use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon.”
“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace.”
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
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