Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

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• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Action
  • Doing

• Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Easy
  • Build
  • Shallow

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Think
  • Years
  • Reputation

• Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Fear
  • Wrong

• I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Friends
  • Catholics
  • Roman

• Oh, when I was in love with youThen I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did I behave.And now the fancy passes byAnd nothing will remain,And miles around they'll say that IAm quite myself again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Wonder
  • Brave

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• I will tell you that the special relationship that America has with the Israeli people transcends any of the politics.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • America
  • Relationship

• When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • Country
  • Food

• Guys want to be compensated fairly.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• No Catholics in my family.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Family
  • Catholics

• Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'

  

  Glen Campbell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington

• If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Atheist

• Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

  

  Al Bernstein
  • Done
  • Job
  • Fool

• We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding

• You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

  

  Linda Evans
  • Age
  • Tears

• Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:you-are the stone, the desert, are death ...

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Desert
  • Lust

• We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Nation
  • Elements
  • Remembered

• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Social
  • Disease
  • Represent

• Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Practical
  • Applications
  • Administrators

• And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Catholics
  • God's Children
  • Freedom Ring