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 JRFaith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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We must substitute courage for caution.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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