Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
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  • Job

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
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  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
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• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Thoughts

• It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Name
  • Greatest
  • Accident

• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Children

• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Way
  • Word

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Long
  • Education

• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Mind

• Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Think
  • Late
  • Repartee

• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • People
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• In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
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  • English

• The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
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• O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thirsts

• Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Summer
  • Term
  • Figures

• It's weird, for me as a fan, to have a fan tell me that I'm their favorite singer. It's still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don't know how to respond to it. It's a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
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• I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.