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Martin Luther King Jr. on values

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAn individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLike an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe time is always right to do the right thing.

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