From Martin Luther King Jr. To The NYPD : JUSTICE

These quotes were selected for the NYPD and NYC.  Major Bill DeBlasio and Commissioner Bratton please set  examples of integrity, honor and justice.

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The time is always right to do what is right.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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A riot is the language of the unheard.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we’re born
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.

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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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The time is always right to do what is right.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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Author: Angela Grant

Angela Grant is a medical doctor. For 22 years, she practiced emergency medicine and internal medicine. She studied for one year at Harvard T. H Chan School Of Public Health. She writes about culture, race, and health.

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