Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
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The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.
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The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.
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In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
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The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.
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I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.
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Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
