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kings children school
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. Bobby Scott
kings drs dr-martin-luther-king
I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King. Mavis Staples
kings hero firefighter
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. Ken Salazar
kings slave
Kings are the slaves of history. Leo Tolstoy
kings
I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living John Flanagan
kings sleep knives
He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn. Maggie Stiefvater
kings science order
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas. Herodotus
kings character giving
It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
kings people drones
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost. John Dryden
keys lows low-key
I'm very, very low-key in general. Debby Ryan
keys different balls
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem. Paul Desmond
heaven legends crime
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. James A. Baldwin
heaven hell
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell. Francis Beaumont
heaven impossible another-life
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. Francis Atterbury
heaven actors directors
I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven. Frances McDormand
heaven unions may
May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence George Washington
heaven church christianity
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.
heaven inner-peace
Heaven is to be at peace with things. George Santayana
heaven secret atheism
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. Fyodor Dostoevsky
heaven life-is embrace
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.