Bishop Desmond Tutu's Quote - If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – Bishop Desmond Tutu

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Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity? – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and… every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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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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