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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

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

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

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

the time is always right to do the right thing

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.