Coretta Scott King Quotes

It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.

Coretta Scott King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 27, 1927 - January 30, 2006

Topics

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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

Jesmyn Ward

LifeIgnorancePainFightEffortMe

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.

Robert J. Shiller

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A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

Roy H. Williams

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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

Mason Cooley

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I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Matisyahu

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The one genre I'm not really into: self-help books.

Michiko Kakutani

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I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.

Louis Theroux

PeopleThinkFeelingWaySystem

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Lisa Loeb

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Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.

Antonio Conte

TogetherYouLoseImportantSquad

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

Avi Arad

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Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

Novak Djokovic

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