#in

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.

#control #gives #interprets #investigates #knowledge

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#out #peaceful #poor #tomorrows #wars

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.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

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.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing