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 JRThe greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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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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We must substitute courage for caution.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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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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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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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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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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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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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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