Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Cool

• A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Long
  • Money
  • Power

• I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Always
  • Better

• I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Want
  • Church
  • Trump

• Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Up
  • Country
  • Start

• History's a resource.

  

  Laura Linney
  • History
  • Resource

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Choice

• We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Change
  • Achievement

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Health
  • Care

• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Cuba

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing

• I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • World
  • Country
  • Born

• Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

  

  Charles Colson
  • People
  • Children
  • Humanity

• Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Texas

• If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Film
  • Musical

• A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Practice
  • Vulgar
  • Mechanick

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.