"In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home."

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Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

Millicent Fenwick

#Kings Quotes #Home Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.”
“Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.”
“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”
“My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.”
“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.”
“Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero ...if we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed”

Source : "Earth is too crowded for Utopia". news.bbc.co.uk. January 6, 2006.
“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The Last Resort: A Novel”, p.275, Open Road Media
“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”

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