Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
As quoted by James Baldwin, “Highroad to Destiny,” a chapter in Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln, New York, NY, Hill & Wang, 1993, p. 97, (Rev. King speech to a black congregation in St. Louis), reprinted from the February, 1961 issue of Harper’s magazine under the title: “The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King.”
1960s
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Foreword http://www.bartleby.com/55/100.html <br class="br">1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) American writer
Variant: To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
The last sentence is from the 16 October 1854 Peoria speech, slightly paraphrased. No known contemporary source for the rest. It first appears, attributed to Lincoln, in US religious/inspirational journals in 1907-8, such as p123, Friends Intelligencer: a religious and family journal, Volume 65, Issue 8 (1908)
Misattributed
“The question we all must ponder is - what is wrong with us?”
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"A Native Hill"
The Long-Legged House (1969)
Context: We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us... We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in.”
Chris Colfer (1990) actor, singer, book author
Personal Quotes 2009–2012 <br class="br">Source: http://www.gleeksource.com/Cast-Members/Kurt/Kurt-s-Blog/October-2011/10-Best-Quotes-from-Chris-Colfer-of-Glee.aspx, GleekSource.com's Top Ten Chris Colfer Quotes.
