Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRA right delayed is a right denied.
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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.
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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