#om

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#come #different #may #now #same

When you see all the suits in the room, everybody in the room has on suits, you know, the women, too. We're not wearing dresses and chiffon and we're not as fun as we used to be. ↗

— Regina King

#everybody #fun #know #room #see

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#get #go #god #i #i may not

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#annihilation #broken #chain #come #dark

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

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discrimination #dominating #every #gnaws #inferiority

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