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 JRDarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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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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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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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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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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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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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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