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 JRWe all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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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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I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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