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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.”
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“I Have a Dream”, March on Washington (28 August 1963)
- Race
And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”, Mason Temple, Memphis (3 April 1968)
- Faith
How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“How Long, Not Long”, speech at the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery (25 March 1965); the image is the abolitionist Theodore Parker’s, from a sermon of 1853
- Justice
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Joke (1967), Pt. 3, ch. 3
- Comedy
Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Prayer
- War & Peace
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Christmas Bells (1865)In context
- Christmas
- God
Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)
- Courage
- Faith
The time for the healing of the wounds has come.
The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.
The time to build is upon us.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Inaugural celebration address (1994)
Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Inaugural celebration address (1994)
- Change
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir1898–1978The Observer (29 December 1974)
But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter VIIIn context
- Faith
And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right.
Harvey Milk1930–1978His stump “Hope Speech”, in the version quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street (1982), p. 363