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2. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
3. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
4. “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
5. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
6. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo 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.'”
7. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
8. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.
9. “I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.”
10. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
11. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
12. “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
Bonus: “In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
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