“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.”
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.
Category: courage
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“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: society
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“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Category: respect
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“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Category: time
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“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: legal
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“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Category: love
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“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: respect
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“Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.”
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.
Category: hope
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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: leadership
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“People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.”
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Author: Roy Blount, Jr.
Category: humor
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“I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.”
— Harry Shum, Jr.
Author: Harry Shum, Jr.
Category: amazing
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