Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
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The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts.
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For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".
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The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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Pride is a fool's fortress.
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I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
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The idea comes before the logical argument.
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Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.
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Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
