Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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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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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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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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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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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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