Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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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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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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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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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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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