Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

  

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• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

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• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

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• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

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• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

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• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

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• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

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• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

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• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

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• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

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• When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

  

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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

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• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

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• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

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• Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

  

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• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

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• I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Philosophy
  • United States