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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• 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.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• 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!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Saturday

• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Lies
  • Organization
  • Victory

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• 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.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Figure out who you are.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Figure
  • Out

• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Two
  • Abortion
  • Fence

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.

  

  J. James Exon
  • Time
  • Revolution

• We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Christian Faith
  • Communist Country

• When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Marry