The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe 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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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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A lie cannot live.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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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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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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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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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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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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