Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
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There's no question that jihad historically means war.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
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As I said before, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and that means that Pennsylvania did not have jurisdiction over the contract of marriage that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.
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Obviously he's a lot better on clay, so I tried to press his forehand and make points on my terms instead of his.
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I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power – doing things you could never actually do in life – like flying and doing backflips in the air!
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There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
