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Tragic Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.
- 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…
- There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
- History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps…
- An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of…
- 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…
- 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…
- I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a…
- There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize…
- 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…
More Tragic Quotes
- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,… — James A. Baldwin
- It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Life is tragic but it's equally comic. — John Banville
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
- I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all… — Roseanne Barr
- What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he… — Dave Barry
- I can't go on. I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett
- There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. — Kenneth Branagh
- The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. — Lois Capps
- One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We… — Dale Carnegie