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" Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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" 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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" A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. "
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" Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. "
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" A riot is the language of the unheard. "
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" I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. "
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" 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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" The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. "
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" The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. "
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" Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. "
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" Seeing is not always believing. "
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" Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. "
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" Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. "
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" He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. "
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" Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. "
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" All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. "
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" There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. "
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" Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. "
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" Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. "
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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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" Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. "
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