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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963 I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963 Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963 I have also decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967 A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967 When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir... America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963 All 26 quotes →

Woodrow Wilson16 quotes

The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917 Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto, "America first." — Woodrow Wilson · 1915 No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. — Woodrow Wilson · 1915 America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916 We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917 A general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. — Woodrow Wilson · 1918 All 16 quotes →

Jimmy Carter8 quotes

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong. — Jimmy Carter · 1976 I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do-and I have done it-and God forgives me for it. — Jimmy Carter · 1976 We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-1 for every 500 Americans, three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyer serves 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. — Jimmy Carter · 1978 We recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently, united. In those times no prize was beyond our grasp. — Jimmy Carter · 1977 Our Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. — Jimmy Carter · 1977 We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means. — Jimmy Carter · 1979 All 8 quotes →

Alice Walker7 quotes

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. — Alice Walker · 1982 Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker · 1982 I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it… People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. — Alice Walker · 1982 Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. — Alice Walker · 1982 I thought love would adapt itself to my needs. But needs grow too fast. They come up like weeds. Through cracks in the conversation. Through silences in the dark. Through everything you thought was concrete. — Alice Walker · 1979 A grown child is a dangerous thing. — Alice Walker · 1982 All 7 quotes →

Flannery O'Connor6 quotes

Routine is a condition of survival. — Flannery O'Connor · 1962 While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. — Flannery O'Connor · 1960 Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. — Flannery O'Connor · 1961 When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words. — Flannery O'Connor · 1959 I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth. — Flannery O'Connor · 1952 The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you do manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first. — Flannery O'Connor · 1956

Margaret Mitchell4 quotes

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. — Margaret Mitchell · 1936 Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for. — Margaret Mitchell · 1936 I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. — Margaret Mitchell · 1936 Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell · 1936

Dean Rusk2 quotes

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962 Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. — Dean Rusk · 1964

R.E.M.2 quotes

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries. — R.E.M. · 1992 That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losin' my religion. — R.E.M. · 1991

Carson McCullers1 quote

Love is a joint experience between two persons-but the fact it is a joint experience does not mean it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and beloved, but these two come from different countries. — Carson McCullers · 1943

Clarence Thomas1 quote

This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves. — Clarence Thomas · 1991

James Brown1 quote

Say it loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud." Some people say we've got a lot of malice, Some say it's a lot of nerve. But I say we won't quit moving Until we get what we deserve. — James Brown · 1968

Julian Bond1 quote

Affirmative action really isn't about preferential treatment for blacks, but about removing preferential treatment whites have received through history. — Julian Bond · 1998

Leonard Matlovich1 quote

A gay Vietnam veteran... They gave me a medal for killing two men-and a discharge for loving one. — Leonard Matlovich · 1988

Mary Schmich1 quote

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now...But trust me on the sunscreen. — Mary Schmich · 1997

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