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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

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I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final re...more

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don...more

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humani...more

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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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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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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its...more

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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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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 ...more

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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

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We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends t...more

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and broth...more

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As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek ...more