"Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history."

-- Patricia J. Williams

#Dream Quotes #Kings Quotes #Rights Quotes

“As much as I'd like to pretend that I'm not performing, I think any actor sometimes has themselves outside of themselves and is trying to direct themselves and control what you're seeing and thinking.”
“My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2011). “Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)”, p.75, Hachette UK
“If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?”
“Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.”
“Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.”
“Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“I say to all who are legally here, that you will be welcome to stay.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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