martin luther king jr quotes on racism

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust



The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session (Thanks, Paul)



Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard



It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ~Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne



My morning choices are having a good tussle. Procrastination was winning, but Make Your Bed & Good Breakfast just kicked his butt. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus



There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. ~Sandy Lyle



It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. ~Mae West



I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming. ~Homer Simpson, from the television show The Simpsons



One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~Will Durant



When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~John Bunyan



Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron, L'Amitie est l'Amour sans Ailes



The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~Evelyn Waugh



I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 9



Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. ~Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964



The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau



The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ~Henry L. Stimson