"There is nothing more dangerous than to..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
“What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.”
“We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.”
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
“The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.”
“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”
More on Justice
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.”
“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.”