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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.

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.

Respect, Reality, Him

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

Women, Men, History

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Age, Religion, Reason

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

Find, Wrong, Injustice

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

Revenge, Often, Boredom

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving, Democracy, Happen

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Ambrose Bierce

Respect, Attitude, Call

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke

Age, Youth, Arrogance

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin

Joy, Suffering, Order

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Thomas Huxley

Time, Guidance, Surely

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph

Law, Obey, Penalty

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
John Calvin

Faith, Nothing, Understand

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Power, Wrong

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Another, Discipline, Praise

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil

Opinions, Role, Merely

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Simone Weil

Hurt, Thought, Lose

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
Billy Sunday

Before, America, Blood

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
Paul Ryan

Health, Government, Care

I don't conquer, I submit.
Giacomo Casanova

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
Hugh Jackman

True, Point, Rules

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Makes, Fast

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis

Made, Soul, Conscience

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
Lauryn Hill

Against, Nobody, Anybody

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov

Nature, War, Hard

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
Kit Williams

Someone, Control, Through

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.
Jason Reitman

Good, Art, Enough

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
Jesse Jackson

Time, Great, Long

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
Jesse Jackson

Time, Long, Lives

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