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 JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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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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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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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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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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