The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
From Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The time is always right to do what is right.
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.
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.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
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?'
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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