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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes: We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
         

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.


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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.



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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.



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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.



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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.



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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.



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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.



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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.





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