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"My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."
"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."
"Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era."
"The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer."
"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
"It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin."
"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."
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