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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• Who does understand life?

  

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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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• In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

  

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• Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

  

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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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Price
  • Americans
  • Attitudes