“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”…I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
“The time is always right to do the right thing.”
“Free at last, free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.”
“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”
“Find a voice in a whisper.”
“We shall overcome.”
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The Two Counterfeits
A counterfeit is something that looks like the real but it isn’t. When I was in Ethiopia my father wrote to me and said, “There is a coin, a very special...
A counterfeit is something that looks like the real but it isn’t. When I was in Ethiopia my father wrote...