One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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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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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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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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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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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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 must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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