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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
A lie cannot live.
"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
"The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society."
"Riots are the voices of the unheard."
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
A right delayed is a right denied.
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
"Intelligence plus character is the true meaning of education."
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."
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.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
"Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant"
"Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness."
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy."
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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