Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I... the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do wi...thout the help and support of the woman I love.... I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears lab...ored without wages. They made cotton "king." And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.... Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do... Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing--no, not for a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above a...ll things Truth beareth away the victory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the worl...d, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String.... At last he swallowed some which tied Itself in ugly Knots inside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought a lot about our nation and what I should do as president. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two proble...ms of our country--energy and malaise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »