Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
Quotes to Explore
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.
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People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
