Bernice King Quotes

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

Bernice King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 28, 1963

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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

Joe Williams

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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

Max Brooks

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I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

Sloane Crosley

WorldThinkWinnerWeekYouFlight

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Socrates

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I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith

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I joined Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill in 1963 as part of A. B. Crawford's Radio Research department in R. Kompfner's laboratory.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

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When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

Roberto Benigni

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More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did.

Brittany Daniel

WorkMeMoreSheLikeThan

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

Ariel Levy

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When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

Penelope Cruz

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President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Pete Hegseth

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