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955 Leader Quotes

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Dies Justice Man Refuses
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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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.

Dream Every Exalted Flesh
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Arrive Distant Goal Means
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Demanded Freedom Given Never
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Creative Dire Extremists Kind
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Guided Men Misguided Missiles
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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?'

First Good Happen Help
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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.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Bends Elbow Justice Moral
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Important Keep Law Love
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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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.

Brotherhood Day Dream Former
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A riot is the language of the unheard.

Language Riot Unheard
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

White Death Free Price
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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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.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Against Am American American Dream
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Too much agreement kills a chat.

Agreement Chat Much Too
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Blood Could History Human
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Commands Due Given Itself
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Beings Hating Human Human Beings
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

America Change Could Former
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Dead Except God Gods
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Being How Human Inhuman
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Become Denied He Most
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Communism Day Die Heart
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

America Black Body Brilliant
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Everybody changes, not just me.

Changes Everybody Just Me
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I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
Beyond Civil Civil Rights Creation
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The Will Is Beast
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
You Are Not Responsible
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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Grant That May Pray
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God Writes Gospel Not
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Afraid That Schools Prove
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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Reasons The Enemy Of
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Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness God's Command Is
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Let The Wife Make
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The Lord Gives Riches
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