“When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
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“We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.”
“To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.”
“Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.”
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
“Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
“Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.”
“From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.”
“When life closes a door, God opens a window.”
“When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.”
“Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.”
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”
“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
“In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.”
“When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.”
“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”
“The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.”
“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.”
“I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.”