Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
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 may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
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.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?’
We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
We must substitute courage for caution.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
That old law about an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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