Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Family
  • Community
  • Question

• My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Family
  • Art
  • Interesting

• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Serious

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Truth
  • Said
  • Will

• I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Know
  • Down
  • Leverage

• Countries aren't built by boring people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Boring
  • Countries

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick
  • Player
  • Never
  • Charge

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Character
  • Guy

• My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.

  

  Hal David
  • World
  • Sweet

• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Die

• I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Guy
  • Funny

• If you tweet for me, I'll tweet for you.

  

  Michael Wolf
  • Tweet

• I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and impermanent like that. It can appear or disappear overnight. Murals like these are at risk of desecration, transformation, erasure. Someone's gonna piss on it, draw a mustache on it, tag it. The weather's going to make it fade. That's part of the beauty, I think. Murals have value without being precious.

  

  Emily Raboteau
  • Risk
  • Confused
  • Transformation

• You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Devil

• When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Kind
  • Sometimes
  • Language

• Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Discover
  • Brotherhood
  • Peoples