Alveda King Quotes

The media has a responsibility. And we can't let them totally get away because they have to let the truth be seen and be told.

Alveda King

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• I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Life
  • Truth
  • My Life

• When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Media
  • Risks

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Democracy
  • Media
  • Sure

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• All the media are horrible.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Media
  • Horrible

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Government
  • Fighting
  • Media

• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Science

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Truth
  • Walk
  • Lake

• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Find
  • Corruption

• [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Humility

• We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

  

  Peter Paige
  • Truth
  • Culture
  • Television

• There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Alone

• For my part, he was God's candidate.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God

• The media has a responsibility. And we can't let them totally get away because they have to let the truth be seen and be told.

  

  Alveda King
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media