Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • God
  • Song

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

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

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Past
  • Door
  • Angry

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Experience
  • History
  • Democracy

• From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Know
  • Evil
  • Days

• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Start
  • Sound
  • Looking

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Peace

• The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Long
  • War
  • Rest

• For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Quality
  • Imagination
  • Sacrifice

• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • War
  • Peace
  • Sacrifice