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There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.


Coretta Scott King

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GERTRUDE STEIN The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will b...
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EVA MCLEOD Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her...
WILLIE PEARSON I want to see freedom and equality through my eyes and your eyes Coretta Scott King. I opened my mou...
MAYA ANGELOU We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone shoul...
JEREMY CORBYN Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest adminis...
JAHANGIR KHAN There is is no reason why someone should not be registered.
ELAINE LYTTLETON Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY We ask all those tens of thousands of people who stood in line to view the body of Coretta Scott Kin...
DON EDWARDS There is no reason why there should be any doubt that the principals should accept the agreement.
JACOB ZUMA No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.
WALLACE D. WATTLES We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice. We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of u...
BILL CLINTON There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
ALEKSANDR LEBED Coretta Scott King will be missed. Her work and her life was not in vain because of the sacrifices s...
HANA STITH The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the ear...
LEE GREENWOOD There's no reason to say we can't take what should be ours.
LEN HUNT Going by the cost of finding and developing oil today, there is no reason why the long-term price sh...
LEO DROLLAS There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression...
TENZIN GYATSO THE 14TH DALAI LAMA As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt...
MOLIERE I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger...
OLD SONG This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. Al...
PRATIBHA PATIL There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
ERIC HOFFER Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as...
JOHN F. KENNEDY People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a...
JASON CALACANIS Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geograph...
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical ...
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fa...
MATHIEU KEREKOU There was going to be no more poverty, no more ignorance, no more disease. Art Deco reflected that c...
ROBERT MCGREGOR There is no reason anyone under 12 should ever be injured by a lawn mower.
DAVID BISHAI There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself ...
MARCUS GARVEY Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
RAY BRADBURY When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER This is a disease that is occurring across the nation. As you age, your immunity wanes, and you are ...
CINDY GROSS Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why t...
FREDERICK SODDY In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as pa...
GEORGE BUSH The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ...
JOHN R.W. STOTT Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
MAHATMA GANDHI All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such
MAHATMA GANDHI There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmind...
HERMAN MELVILLE There really is no more important issue Congress should be working on this year, and in this time of...
TOM DASCHLE As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise t...
NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparatio...
TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its peo...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on...
SEAN O'CASEY There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to W...
ALEX PAREENE There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high a...
CHARLES TUPPER There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
BILLIE BURKE There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. ...
VICTOR MITCHELL A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Ro...
OSCAR ISAAC The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prow...
MARGARET GELLER I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be...
GARRY THOMAS Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science...
CORETTA SCOTT KING For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
JOHN W. GARDNER High-level nuclear waste is already being stored at nuclear power plants across our nation, and ther...
SHELLEY BERKLEY There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
KAREN HORNEY There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patri...
, TO ROBERT SHERMAN OF AMERICAN ATHEIST PRESS, AT THE CHICAGO AIRPORT WHILE ANNOUNCING FEDERAL DISASTER RELIEF FOR ILLINOIS There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and...
KAILASH SATYARTHI A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason w...
GEORGE ELIOT A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER A substitute shines brightly as a king, Until a king be by
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUND There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
EZRA POUND A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It will become more price competitive. There is no reason why organic should cost more than regular.
LINDA GILBERT Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social probl...
KAILASH SATYARTHI There was no reason the school could give as to why this school made such gains.
CATHY SCHROEDER The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among pe...
P. J. O'ROURKE Our compass is pointing in the right way and if it continues to point in this way, there should be n...
ISRAEL SINGER If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
LEO TOLSTOY If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or ...
HENRY ALDRICH There must be a reason why people hesitate; uncertainty is one, no courage another.
RON DE JONGE They also had a guest choir from Malden, Massachusetts, and the featured soloist with the choir was ...
VALERIE CUNNINGHAM As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be--Maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no rea...
TAMMARA WEBBER I think the team played well. There is no reason why credit should go to only one player.
AJAY JADEJA If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would b...
JAKOB BOHME There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty
GEORGE FARQUHAR There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
GEORGE FARQUHAR There is no reason for dog owners to panic over the confirmation of these cases. Any dog that exhibi...
CHRISTIAN LEUTENEGGER I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as strippe...
CAMILLE PAGLIA No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
MAIMONIDES There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design ...
JOHN REDWOOD With all the new technology and drugs we have today, there is no reason why our children continue to...
CHARLES FISHER The reason why you should enjoy your life today is because,there is no certainty that you will witne...
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STEPHEN KING The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
STEPHEN KING Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
A.S. KING you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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