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Homer Poet
Courageous

“When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.”

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Homer Poet
Philosophical

“It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.”

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Martin Gore Musician
Curious

“I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.”

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Martin Gore Musician
Philosophical

“People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.”

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Martin Gilbert Historian
Anxious

“I think the sign of complacency in the stock market is when people don't worry. At the moment, everyone worries about everything. They worry about geopolitical risk, about political risk, they worry that the markets are too high. The time to really worry is when everyone thinks that markets are going up and everything is going really well.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Courageous

“The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Courageous

“White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Courageous

“Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Courageous

“We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.”

Martin Luther Theologian
Creative

“[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.”

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Martin Luther Theologian
Grateful

“The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away”

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Martin Luther Theologian
Creative

“Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.”

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Martin Lawrence Actor, Comedian
Creative

“It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.”

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Martin Luther Theologian
Angry

“If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.”