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Persons Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
- If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
- Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a…
- ... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
- We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
- 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…
- ...love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just…
- The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.
- I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't…
- Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest.
- People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment…
- When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,
- Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that…
- 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…
- God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left…
- There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what…
- We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered…
- 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…
- [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister…
- This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were…
- What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk…
- Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that…
- Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat…
- We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash