The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
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Moral victories don't count.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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A sense of share is not a bad moral compass.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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All universal moral principles are idle fantasies.
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It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
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Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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The freedom fighters of Nicaragua.. Are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.
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No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
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What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
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If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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