Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Star
  • Problems
  • Slave

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religion

• What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Together
  • Want
  • Community

• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Facts
  • Learned
  • Opinions

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

• I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Movie
  • College

• I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinions

• Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Shape
  • Blond
  • Working Men

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• Try to be in as many relationships as you can.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Relationships
  • To Be
  • Many Times

• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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