Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Greatest
  • Second

• Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Want
  • Same
  • Most

• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

  

  Charles Trevelyan
  • Today

• I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Understanding
  • Violence

• I carried props into the subway - the latest 'Semlotext(e),' a hefty volume of the Frankfurt School - so that the employed would not get the wrong idea or, more to the point, the usual idea about me.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • School

• Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Intellect

• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Violence multiplies violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Multiplies