Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.
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And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.'Martin Luther King Jr.
The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
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Need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always to hope to do great things.
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A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America address at Birmingham AL.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
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