"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.“
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
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"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
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"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
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"Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer."
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"I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg."
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."
-Les Aspin
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"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
-W. H. Davies
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