#martin

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#like #martini #shaken #white

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called. ↗

— Billy Graham

#calling #feel #felt #get #help

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#am #backside #bigots #black #enjoying

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#guard #guitar #i #martin #nearly

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. ↗

— David Horowitz

#birthday #carter #celebrate #congress #created

To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss. ↗

— Iain Banks

#fiction #gothic #levis #change

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now? ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#going #i #i see #just #like

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best way #child #contribute #could #going

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#great #i #i think #love #martin