Martin Luther King

(34 votes)   Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

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(33 votes)   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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(33 votes)   A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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(33 votes)   Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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(33 votes)   If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

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(33 votes)   If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

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(33 votes)   It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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(33 votes)   That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

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(33 votes)   Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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(33 votes)   We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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(33 votes)   We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. 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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(33 votes)   We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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(32 votes)   History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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(32 votes)   Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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(31 votes)   At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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