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King Quotes
Words fit for a crown, from throne to everyday life.
This page gathers king quotes that move well beyond palace walls - comparing a monarch's day to the arc of the sun, and framing actors as hidden wizards and kings. For more in this vein, see our Shayari collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask me whether the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream, I say, 'No, it's just a down payment.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any older actor knows the last great mountain to climb is to play King Lear and now, if I ever play Lear, I will have done the pre-preparation because I had to go into the play and read it over and over again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
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- Nov 07, 2020