Ballasting track Martin Luther King, Jr

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Martin Luther King, Jr. , Letter from Birmingham Jail Just as Socrates felt that it ballasting track necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Letter from Birmingham Jail Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Letter from Birmingham Jail When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Nobel Price Acceptance Speech Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours. Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Trumpet of Conscience, 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants ballasting track it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an ballasting track catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Trumpet of Conscience, 1 violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1 Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them.