Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNever forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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