Hero's of Truth
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Hero's
Jimmy Carter | Quotes of truth, compassion, peace, honor and courage from important people, our hero's to look up to today. These people have chosen to use what they have to help others and try the best they can to make the world a better place, especially for those who are hurting and oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
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.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A lie cannot live.
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
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