Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • History
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  

  Harry Browne
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Security

• I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • History
  • Girl
  • Find

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Today

• I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Love
  • History
  • Career

• There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • History
  • Think
  • Success

• There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • Long
  • History

• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country artist. To know your heroes have played here is kind of crazy.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Country
  • History
  • Party

• Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor's sufferings and derring-do.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • History
  • Pretty

• Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

  

  Jon Lester
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

  

  Alan Pardew
  • Success
  • Europe
  • Club

• History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Voluntarily
  • Tragic Story