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An individual who breaks a 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 the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Political, Control, Perfect

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Giving, Touch

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Money, Nothing, Rich

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Great, Give

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

Forget, Enough, Cannot

I'm a reflection of the community.
Tupac Shakur

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trust, Respect, Fear

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama

Economy, Lifetime, Changing

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

Poverty, Nor, Principles

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Will Smith

Life, Real, Black

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Oliver Tambo

Freedom, Happy, Fight

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama

Important, Career, Play

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

Society, True, Law

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Country, Before, America

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Whole, Rights

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

Work, Power, Heart

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar

Women, Progress, Degree

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel Osteen

Morning, Big, Off

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Marriage, Two, Making

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!
Mitt Romney

Him, Looking, President

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold

Love, Respect, May

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas A. Edison

Made, Body, Cells

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher

Respect, Knowledge, State

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

Rich, Cannot, Poor

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James

Sympathy, Away, Individual

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy Graham

Year, Days, High

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian Eno

Great, Yourself, Self

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