#ten

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#american women #benefiting #budget #budget cuts #children

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! ↗

— Jonathan King

#acts #alive #being #careers #certain

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#critically #education #function #goal #intelligence

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#character #children #color #content #day

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#autumn #discontent #freedom #invigorating #legitimate

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#age group #any #audience #audiences #capture

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

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. ↗

— Peter King

#anguish #causing #construct #deep #else

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt. ↗

— Peter King

#afford #american #american president #because #benefit