mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437276623
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.
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The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
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Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
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We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.... When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge provided for us by a Pacific Islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs, we are beholden to more than half the world.
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If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.
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Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
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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.
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There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
Thanksgiving Quotes by W.T. PURKISER-1437204762
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Quotes by ROBERT QUILLEN-1437203044
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Thanksgiving Quotes by IRVING BERLIN-1437198883
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
Thanksgiving Quotes by ROBERT CASPER LINTNER-1437197440
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437157146
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.
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Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437150721
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.
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Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
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"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437133156
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
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We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437128412
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and is willing to accept the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437123709
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
Thanksgiving Quotes by JAMES SMITH-1437119631
It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.
Thanksgiving Quotes by ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER-1437117920
I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
Thanksgiving Quotes by WILL CARLETON-1437111595
Thanksgiving-day, I fear,If one the solemn truth must touch,Is celebrated, not so muchTo thank the Lord for blessing o'er,As for the sake of getting more!
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437108505
You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
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Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
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When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.
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Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.
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President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.
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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.
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Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West."
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1437059612
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.
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There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.
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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436982827
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
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Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.
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It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.
Thanksgiving Quotes by WILLIAM A. WARD-1436978466
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
Thanksgiving Quotes by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-1436976811
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Thanksgiving Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436975240
But whether we have less or more,Always thank we God therefor.
Thanksgiving Quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1436973711
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436959120
The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.
mom day quotes by WILLIAM D. TAMMEUS-1436956659
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
mom day quotes by HELEN HUNT JACKSON-1436939520
Motherhood is pricedOf God, at price no man may dareTo lessen or misunderstand.
mom day quotes by JEWISH PROVERB-1436937929
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
mom day quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1436933678
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
mom day quotes by IRISH PROVERB-1436894394
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
mom day quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436892773
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
mom day quotes by T. DEWITT TALMAGE-1436891532
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
mom day quotes by MARION C. GARRETTY-1436888796
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
mom day quotes by ARISTOTLE-1436887164
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
mom day quotes by OSCAR WILDE-1436868111
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
mom day quotes by GOLDA MEIR-1436862895
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
mom day quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1436861696
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
mom day quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436854640
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
mom day quotes by JOHN ERSKINE-1436853312
Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
mom day quotes by RAJNEESH-1436851702
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
mom day quotes by LORD LANGDALE (HENRY BICKERSTETH)-1436807983
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
mom day quotes by PETER DE VRIES-1436806702
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
mom day quotes by WILLIAM GOLDSMITH BROWN-1436805203
The sweetest sounds to mortals givenAre heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
mom day quotes by MILDRED B. VERMONT-1436803650
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
mom day quotes by GEORGE COOPER-1436800169
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,But only one mother the wide world over.
tooth fairy quotes by DANA SNYDER-1436798528
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.
tooth fairy quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1436782024
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
romantic quotes by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE-1436780622
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
mom day quotes by TENNEVA JORDAN-1436779380
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436774738
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436765618
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436764268
A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436726003
The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436724612
[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.
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As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money."
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436715337
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."
mlk day quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436695748
[W]hen you first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are
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