#sit

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bad #bad people #clamor #good #good people

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#able #brotherhood #day #dream #former

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over. ↗

— Peter King

#better #between #bureaucracy #class #come

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. ↗

— Rodney King

#brutality #child #force #healing #i

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#certain #condition #double #face #human

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#being #body #cannot #keep #make

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#beautiful #gardens #how #made #oh

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#man #mind #more #seven #sitting