Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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  • Up
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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
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• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
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• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
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• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
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• You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Power
  • High
  • Change

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Power
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Reality

• 'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
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• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Behind the entire problem, however, is the fear of using one's full power or energy. Cancer patients most usually feel an inner impatience as they sense their own need for future expansion and development, only to feel it thwarted.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Power
  • Future
  • Fear

• Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Done

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Party
  • Celebrity

• When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Progress

• I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Ballot
  • Decisive Steps