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Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why
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Money may not buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a Lamborghini
You had me at hello
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Don't look back you're not going that way
I like me a little bit more when i'm with you
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Together is my favorite place to be
Men go shopping to buy what they need. Women go shopping to find out what they want
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If cats could talk, they wouldn't






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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’ (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, ‘The church is not meant to be the master of the state.’ We don’t sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people’s throats (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man’s life was sacred only if we agreed with his views (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told ‘National Journal’ that the country’s economic woes are deep and endemic (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I wasn’t predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn’t want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn’t want to run for Congress. I didn’t want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the qu icksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)