Martin Luther King
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, 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 streetsweeper who did his job well."
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."