Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by the government, and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. Wherever the supreme power of legislation has resided, has been supposed to reside also, a full power to change the form of government.
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
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