True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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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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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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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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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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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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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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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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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.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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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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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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