Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Who does understand life?
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
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Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.
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Cause I'm still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me.
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Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy.
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Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.
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Language is the tool of the tools.
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Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.
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The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.
