“The time is always right to do what’s right.”
Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008) http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2008/01/21/when-mlk-came-to-oberlin/
1960s
Variant: The time is always right to do what’s right.
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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
“What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.”
“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”
Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901).
Variant: Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”
Variant: I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.
“I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.”
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2005-07-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg83284.html,
2000s, 2005
As quoted in "Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano, Part I" http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2009/09/25/bronx-banter-interview-arnold-hano/ by Hank Waddles, in Alex Belth's Bronx Banter (September 25, 2009)
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