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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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God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only lov...more

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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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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

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Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to ...more

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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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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are c...more

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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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The amazing aftermath of Birmingham, the sweeping Negro Revolution, revealed to people all over the land that there are no outsiders in all these fift...more

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We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no ...more