Moral Crisis Quotes

• With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.

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  Arlene Holt Baker

  Thinking   People   Broken  

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• I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Betrayal   Silence   Neutrality  

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967.

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• The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

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  Edmund Burke

  Motivational   Peace   Fire  

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• The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

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  Pope John Paul II

  Sacrifice   Men   Discipline  

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• Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

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  Bryant H. McGill

  Moral   Form   Crisis  

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• The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

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  Dante Alighieri

  Soul   Neutrality   Moral  

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• This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

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  John F. Kennedy

  People   Neutrality   Panic  

  Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

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