Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Quotes to Explore
-
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
-
It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
-
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-
I don't mind dating younger men now.
-
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
-
'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
-
When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
-
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
-
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
-
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
-
Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
-
Don't just exist, be a part of life.
-
If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!
-
And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
-
The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!
-
What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.
-
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
-
Literature has become my life.
-
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
-
Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.
-
You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.
-
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
