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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 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. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. 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. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. 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. People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other. We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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