Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Job
  • Running
  • Positive

• It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Believe
  • America
  • Understand

• I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Two

• First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Music
  • Women
  • Song

• Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

  

  Randy West
  • Time
  • Live
  • Reading

• Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Sex
  • Last
  • Miserable

• Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Go

• My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Heart
  • Parents

• I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Wife
  • Woman
  • Hero

• As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Time
  • Live
  • Love

• Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Democracy

• The light from the big window fell right on the picture. I took a good look at it. Then I shifted a bit nearer and took another look. Then I went back to where I had been at first, because it hadn't seemed quite so bad from there.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Light

• Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

  

  Wolfgang Ostwald
  • Equal
  • Resistance
  • Minus

• It could go from a swing feel to a real primitive tribal thing and into some kind of chaos, all in one moment.

  

  Stephen Perkins Jane's Addiction
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Chaos

• For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Action

• I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Different
  • Proud

• That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

  

  Drew Chadwick Emblem3
  • Past
  • Hours
  • Esteem

• The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.