Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
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From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.
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I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,
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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
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Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
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I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.
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One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
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It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"
