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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can o

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. – Sydney Smith

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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. – Juvenal

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Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

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When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared…. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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