"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.“
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"
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"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
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