The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.Thomas Alva Edison
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.Thomas Alva Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.Thomas Alva Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.Thomas Alva Edison
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.Martin Luther King
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
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.Martin Luther King
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.Martin Luther King
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.Martin Luther King
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.Martin Luther King
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
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.Martin Luther King
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.Martin Luther King
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.Martin Luther King
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.Martin Luther King