A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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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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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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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