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A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Community, Excellence, Long, Mere, Things
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Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Blow, Eye, Speak, Speaks Out, Time, Tolerate

Some men see the world as it is and say 'Why?' I see the world as it could be and say, 'Why not?'

Men, Say, Why Not, World

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Change, Courage, Hope, Human, Injustice

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

Change, Courage, Men, Painfully, Society, Vital

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies. . .

Beliefs, Brother, Confront, Hate, Job, Jobs
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