Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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True 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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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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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 greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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