Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • End
  • Battle
  • Texas

• Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Reading

• Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Kids

• There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.

  

  James Collins
  • World
  • High

• Each time you see a Western movie, it's a good reflection of where things are in the world at that time. It's probably one of the purest forms of cinema that really tells you where the world is.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!

  

  Penny Marshall
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Real

• Where I go, where He takes me, that's where I need to spread the love of God. Because people's souls are dying. My soul was dying. And He saved me.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • People
  • God
  • Soul

• Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • Famous

• Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

  

  Peter Singer
  • Ethics

• I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Help
  • Football
  • Player

• We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Value
  • Opinion

• In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Real
  • Art
  • Happen

• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  

  Alex Karras
  • Terms
  • Iowa
  • Eisenhower`s

• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Terms
  • Define

• Obviously he's a lot better on clay, so I tried to press his forehand and make points on my terms instead of his.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Press
  • Tried
  • Terms

• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Music
  • Interest
  • Rhythm

• To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Terms
  • Human Law
  • Natural Law