Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRQuietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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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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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 use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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There 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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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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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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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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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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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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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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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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