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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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
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You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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He's our catalyst, he means everything to this team. I think there's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny kind of makes us go. He's very, very important to us. I know he's a tough player and he'll be back out on the field for us soon.
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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.
