#lit

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#believe #cannot #convenience #deny #group

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. ↗

— Don King

#back #back up #because #better #boxing

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums. ↗

— Kerry King

#business #dies #go #going #hell is

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#character #children #color #content #day

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#approaching #continues #defense #doom #military

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#control #forward #foundations #go #hinges

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#directly #i #i can #indirectly #interrelated

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#life #longevity #quality

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#accepts #arouse #breaks #community #conscience

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing