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Government Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...…
- I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government…
- The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform…
- They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions…
- The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert…
- We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in…
- We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic…
- We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence…
- I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in…
- The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida