You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
Choose a challenge instead of competence
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in hisessays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.
We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.
If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.
If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.
Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.
If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.
Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
We were cowards when we sacked him.
Every age is an unknown country.
Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.
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 to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
All I want is the truth, just give me some truth
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
Be heroes in an army of construction.
It's weird not to be weird.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Secrecy destroys accountability.
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 of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.
It is today that we create the world of the future.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terrorI hate the man in the mirrorCause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
