Morgan Freeman
(1937-)

birthdate: June 1
birthplace:
Memphis, Tennessee

QUOTES

“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”

“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”

“In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.”

Black history is American history.”

“[Man] is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”

We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. ... The world needs his message today more than ever before.”

“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”

“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep him and his memory alive.”

 

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