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MinistersA collection of reflections from ministers across public service and spiritual leadership, offering perspectives shaped by responsibility, duty, and care for community. These voices span cabinet rooms and congregations, addressing power, conscience, policy, and compassion. Whether guiding nations or nurturing congregations, ministers speak to the challenges of decision-making, the weight of accountability, and the hope that drives service, illuminating leadership in times of crisis and calm and inviting reflection on integrity, purpose, and the common good.
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"The time is always right to do what is right"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"A right delayed is a right denied"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"We must use time creatively"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
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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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