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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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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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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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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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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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