"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

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Source : Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.”
“I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.”
“Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that white people used.”
“Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.”
“I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,”
“The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth.”
“There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.”
“I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.”

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