"If you have not discovered something you..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
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“My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .”
“[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.”
“Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.”
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“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.”
“If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?”
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
More on Conviction
“Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.”
“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.”
“Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.”