Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. – Norman B. Rice

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