#usa

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#africans #black #civil-rights #justice #king

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for. ↗

— Josef Albers

#against #always #done #falling #had

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ↗

— Fred Allen

#better #even #good #magnify #press

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#bat #careers #down #else #friendships

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#aspects #background #cast #characters #clone

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways. ↗

— Rick Baker

#awful #come #different #different ways #ever

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#friendly #god #god bless #large #rich

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. ↗

— Bille August

#big #century #come #dream #eve

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#country #day #i #majority #opposed

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#fear #go #i #jerusalem #just