"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Wisdom, Ignorance, Nothing, Stupidity, World

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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

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"One who breaks an unjust 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 law."

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

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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

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"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."

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"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

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"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

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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?""

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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

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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."

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

George Washington, American President

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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