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.

#945

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

#908

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

#907

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

#906

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

#905

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

#792

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

#785

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

#38

Abraham Maslow • Andrew Tanner • Bertolt Brecht • Bruce Sterling • Buckminster Fuller • Craig Villamor • Dalaï Lama • Elon Musk • Erica Jong • Franz Kafka • Gerry Burnie • Henry David Thoreau • Henry Ford • Henry Van Dyke • Iris Murdoch • John F. Kennedy • Marcel Proust • Marvin Minsky • Natalie Angier • Pablo Picasso • Paul Jarvis • Paul Klee • Ray Bradbury • Regina Dugan • Sam Levenson • Sebastiaan De With • Sigmund Freud • Stephen Wright • Steve Wozniak • Tim Hibbetts • Tim O'Reilly • Tony Bennett • Vera Brittain • Walt Whitman • Wayne Gretzky • Woody Allen

Martin Luther King Jr.

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