Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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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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"Nothing hurts me if I don’t want it to,” she told him.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.
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It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
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The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
