"We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America.Â Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.”
“My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.”
“...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...”
“A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.”
“Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.”
“I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.”

Source : Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam
“The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.”
“A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”

Source : "Your Own Damn Life". Interview with John Malkin, www.thesunmagazine.org. November 2011.

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