It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can kee… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.Leader · American · 1929 – 1968

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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. — Martin Luther King, Jr.