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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#death #free #i #more #must

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.

#dire #dire need #extremists #kind #nation

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discovered #fit #hasn #live #man

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#art #done #favor #greater #just

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discovered #fit #hasn #i #live

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

Seeing is not always believing. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#believing #seeing

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#carving #loudly #out #past #peaceful