Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.
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I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
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Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
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It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.
