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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.