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Wells Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did…
- Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a…
- 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…
- World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting…
- 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…
- One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for…
- Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words…
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
- Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the…
- The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
- 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…
- We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.
- A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
- Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish…
- I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something…
- 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…
- Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could…
- 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…
- If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare…
- It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
- When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong