Quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

—Napoleon Bonaparte
In Germany they first came for the Communists - and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews - and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists - and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics - and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up.

—Martin Niemoller (1945)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

—Edmund Burke
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

—John F. Kennedy
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory... ...will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

—Abraham Lincoln
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

—Elbert Hubbard
Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

—Haile Selassie
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

—Edward R. Murrow (09/03/54)
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

—Plato
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
We are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

—Laurence Overmire
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in time of great moral crisis.

—Dante Alighieri
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

—Horace Greeley
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

—Helen Keller
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

—Abraham Lincoln
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice.

—John Kerry

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