Kings Quotes - Page 12

• Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Law, Reputation

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they're still behaving like they need a king.

  Gaspar Noe

  America, President, Needs

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We're talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility that it alienated our supporters, both white and black.

  Danny Glover

  Book, White, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

  Malcolm X

  Drs, Dr Martin Luther King, Method

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

  Malcolm X

  Luther, Method, Wells

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• I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Hero, Cities

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

  Malcolm X

  Jail, Government, Water

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really most of his books); Anne Rice/The Witching Hour; and Pat Conroy/The Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.

  Megan Chance

  Book, Character, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

  Cornel West

  Always Trying, People, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• As a human being, as you go through the course of your day, you might wake up with the shittiest day, and by noon something f - king historically funny happens around the water cooler, and you're about to fart yourself you're laughing so hard. And then you might have to think about something seriously for a minute.

  Killer Mike

  Thinking, Laughing So Hard, Water

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, War, Responsibility

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced on a donkey's back. The hotel was full. The hour was late. The event was one big hassle. Yet, out of the hassle, hope was born. It still is.

  Max Lucado

  Ladybugs, Events, Looks

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it's easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

  Cornel West

  War, White, Analysis

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking.

  Sam Champion

  Powerful, Shrinking, Habitat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Memorable, Winning, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Years

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!

  Paul Virilio

  Years, Cities, Flare Up

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination and oppression. What's difficult is to situate him ideologically under a particular category.

  Cornel West

  Commitment, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

  Cornel West

  Understanding, Dots, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Wealth, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

  Cornel West

  Speaks Out, Racism, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

  Aya Cash

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.

  Cornel West

  Real, People, Upset

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

  Pitbull

  Thinking, Rapper, Years

  Source: djbooth.net

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