Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Opportunities

• Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Attention
  • Ignore
  • Pay

• I don't focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent's fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Style

• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Warrior

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Country
  • May
  • War

• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Sympathy

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Body
  • Fat
  • Goat

• What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Needs
  • Hood

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Love
  • American

• I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Enough
  • Sense

• In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Time
  • Live
  • School

• I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Three

• I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Girl

• Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If fate happens to toss you a lightbulb, use it to light the path of others, for they will use theirs to light the path of you. With your light together with mine, it's two times as bright and twice as strong.'

  

  Matthew Underwood
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.