Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Help

• There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Glamorous

• The lack of work destroys people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Work
  • Destroys

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
  • Bible

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  

  Len Wein
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Fields
  • Pioneers
  • Antidepressants

• Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Real

• The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • War
  • Risk

• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

• I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Done
  • Blood
  • Result

• My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mistake
  • Forgive
  • Individuality

• Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Reason
  • Emotions
  • Networks

• How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Painting
  • Conviction
  • Painter

• Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Important
  • Man
  • Consideration

• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Broken
  • Hands
  • Life is

• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

  

  Ben Ames Williams
  • Business
  • Choice
  • Life is

• It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life is
  • Boils
  • Interrelated