Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Defeat
  • Return
  • Terrorists

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• I still keep my accent.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Keep
  • Still
  • Accent

• I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Home
  • Education

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

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

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Difficult

• 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

• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Teenager
  • Going

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Place
  • England
  • Encouraging

• Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Quality
  • Human
  • Creativity

• The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Problem
  • Very

• I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Tea
  • Structure
  • Addict

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Question

• There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Society
  • Single

• A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

  

  George Orwell
  • Society
  • Structure
  • Fraud

• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Exist
  • Murder