Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
