It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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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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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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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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