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America Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 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…
- A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages…
- The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because…
- A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to…
- In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the…
- To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
- We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
- Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of…
- A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
- We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the…
- The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes…
- There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of…
- It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred…
- If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the…
- But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults…
- Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days,…
- America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
- We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
- Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
- If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this…
- It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
- Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I…
- We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people…
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon