Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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Figure out who you are.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.
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The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
