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
  • Important
  • Experience

• 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
  • Why
  • 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
  • Excuses

• 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
  • War
  • Weekend

• 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
  • Job
  • House
  • English

• You can talk all you want about consensual reality, Jilly, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are real and some things aren’t. There’s a line drawn between the two that separates reality from fantasy.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Real
  • Reality

• Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Nature
  • Hides
  • Many Things

• I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Together
  • Doubt

• You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • History
  • Pleasure
  • Knowing

• India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • India
  • British Rule

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

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.