"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"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."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on age and aging
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"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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."

King Jr. Martin Luther on dream
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

King Jr. Martin Luther on dream
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

King Jr. Martin Luther on extremes and extremists
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."

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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

Wilde, Oscar on fiction
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on faults
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."

Wilde, Oscar on generations
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"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"Experience is the name we give to our mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on mistakes
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

Wilde, Oscar on literature
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say."

Wilde, Oscar on hobos
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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