Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Hate
• Justice
• Injustice
• Preservation
• Extremists

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• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Honor

• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Always
  • Will

• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I hate jeans for no reason.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Hate
  • Reason
  • Jeans

• These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Justice

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Sad

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• Look your best - who said love is blind?

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Best
  • Love Is

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Poverty
  • For Him

• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Shape
  • Structure

• I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Brotherhood

• I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • School
  • Never

• Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• People like me thought America was the best place to be creative, to be free to create, to have the freedom to be who you are.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • America
  • Free

• I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • American
  • Future
  • Small

• Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Justice
  • Injustice