Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names."
Public Life quotes
Public Life
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Patti Smith
Musician
"My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important."
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
"If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life."
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