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One 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. On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise the very antithesis of these principles. How often are our lives characterised by a high blood pressure of creeds and an anaemia of deeds! We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practise the very opposite of the democratic creed. We talk passionately about peace, and at the same time we assiduously prepare for war. We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice. This strange dichotomy, this agonising gulf between the and the , represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.
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words
war
love-in-action
martin-luther-king-jr
peace
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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mlk
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social-consciousness
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graphic-novel
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Mark Long |
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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slavery
morality
barack-obama
obama-inaguration
obama-speeches
preacher
martin-luther-king-jr
unitarianism
sermons
atheism
justice
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Theodore Parker |
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Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
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racism
silence
slavery
politics
corrupt
martin-luther-king-jr
civil-rights-movement
corruption
race-relations
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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faith
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police-reform
police-shootings
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voting-rights-act-of-1965
nonviolence
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Aberjhani |
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The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.
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truth
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Timothy B. Tyson |
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"Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you
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racism
politics
african-americans
plantation
barack-obama
martin-luther-king-jr
hillary-clinton
iowa
new-hampshire
united-states-elections-2008
george-w-bush
united-states
hypocrisy
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
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freedom
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good-and-bad
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