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" A lie cannot live. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cannot
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" The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "
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" When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. "
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" The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' "
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" Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. "
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" We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. "
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" I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. "
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" Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. "
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" We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. "
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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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" The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. "
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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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" I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. "
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