Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Freedom
• Government
• Murder

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• I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

  

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• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
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• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

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• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
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• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
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• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
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• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
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• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
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• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

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• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
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• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
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• When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Up
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• We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.

  

  Robert Webb
  • American
  • Revolution
  • Challenged

• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Kids
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• Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Strange
  • Murder
  • Human Nature

• Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Murder