“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American baptist minister and civil rights movement leader, most famous for his speech "I have a dream", assassinated, the son on [Martin Luther King, Sr.](/a/OL1654795A) (1899-1984).
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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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“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
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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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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
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“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.”
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“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
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“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.”
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
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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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“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
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“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
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“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
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“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
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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...”
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“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”
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“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
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“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inau...”
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“Find a voice in a whisper.”
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