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• Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be…
• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
• In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's…
• He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great…
• Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.
• These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed…
• America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when…
• A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past…
• We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and…
• All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are…
• I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White…
• We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't…

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