The time is always right to do the right thing.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.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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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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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.
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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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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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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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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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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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There is no gain without struggle.
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