Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I like being unconventional.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
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Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.
