Hate is too great a burden to bear.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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