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

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.

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.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, Or of humanity itself, Till philosophers become kings in this world, Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Moses spent forty years in the king’s palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways…The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven’s field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are.

I am Cyrus, king of the world.

I tried to stay away from King. You can’t do it. It’s like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he’ll get you.

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.