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

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There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

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Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage th...more

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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 mean...more

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

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

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All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Wh...more

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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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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth...more

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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.