Quotes Ki-Kz
"I never learned anything while I was talking." -- Larry King
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases
its own spiritual death on an installment plan." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own
government . . . for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under
our violence, I cannot be silent." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word
in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil
triumphant." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a
minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference
made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a
minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness
made legal." -- Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail: April 16, 1963
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking
and inhumane." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of
justice." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase.
Just take the first step." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to
tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my
desk." -- Stephen King
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who
crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
-- Barbara Kingsolver
"Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who�s got the
smallest." -- Neil Kinnock
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
-- Rudyard Kipling
"People say what we are all seeking is the meaning of life...I think what
we're really seeking is the experience of being alive." -- Rudyard Kipling
"A sleeping giant has been awoken by Canada's debate about same-sex civil
marriage rights: the Christian right. Their engagement in the political arena
threatens to change a lot in Canadian politics over the next generation.
Perhaps -- if we don't figure out how to deal with this -- this emerging
religious extremism will wreak the same havoc upon civil debate in this
country as in the U.S., where religious extremists hijacked the Republican
party and re-wrote the nation's agenda in biblical terms." -- Gareth Kirkby
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." -- Fletcher Knebel
"Why [do] we name these horrible segregated schools for people that black
folks love? . . . Save the name of Dr. King for a school that lives up to his
dream." -- Jonathan Kozol, "The Shame of the Nation," Convocation at Carleton
College, 5/5/2006
"An observation is the highest form of human intelligence." - J. Krishnamurti
"The most obvious lesson from Sodom is that when you're attacked by an angry
mob, the holy thing to do is to offer up your virgin daughters."
-- Nicholas Kristof
"Jesus never said a word about gays, while he explicitly advised a wealthy man
to give away all his assets and arguably warned against bank accounts ('do not
store up for yourselves treasures on earth'). Likewise, Jesus praises those who
make themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, but conservative
Christians rarely lead the way with self-castration." -- Nicholas Kristof
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to
prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy." -- Louis Kronenberger
"If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We are not the victims
of the world we see, we are the victims of the way we see the world."
-- Dennis Kucinich
"If Americans are so repulsed by gay sex, perhaps the solution is to just allow
gays to marry and have kids. After all, everyone knows that parents of young
children have no time for sex." -- Gersh Kuntzman
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