Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Expectation

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Courage
  • Sins

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Knowing
  • Commit

• The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • People
  • Energy
  • Quality

• The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

  

  Marie Corelli
  • Silence

• It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Human Rights

• The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Situation

• You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Today

• There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Career
  • Rest

• Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Truth
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • World
  • Free
  • Human Rights

• Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Decision
  • Commit
  • Clinton

• You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?

  

  Miguel Syjuco
  • Shopping
  • Cathedrals
  • Graveyard

• None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Changes
  • Destruction
  • Considered

• Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Commit
  • Human Rights
  • Great Nation