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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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