Quotes about Opportunity
The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development. The Negro knew all too well that there was not in existence the kind of vigorous retraining program that could really help him to grapple with the magnitude of his problem.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The daily life of the Negro is still lived in the basement of the Great Society. He is still at the bottom despite the few who have penetrated to slightly higher levels. Even where the door has been forced partially open, mobility for the Negro is still sharply restricted. There is often no bottom at which to start, and when there is, there is almost always no room at the top.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always rip to do right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Their objectives included the elimination of Birmingham's rigid segregation. They wanted the right to vote. They wanted jobs and the ability to try on clothes in all the places where they shopped. They wanted public schools opened to all children without regard to the color of their skin.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
— Ayn Rand
I was lucky to lose my voice at the beginning of the personal computing age.
— Stephen Hawking
I have had a full and satisfying life. I believe that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn't precent them from doing and not regret those they can't do.
— Stephen Hawking
You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.
— Anonymous
Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.
— Anonymous
There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.
— Germany Kent