Word: martin
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...short radio plays were produced in Australia. He turned to theater largely because he thought he could do better than the "really dull" stuff he found on the British stage at the time. Aside from David Mamet's American Buffalo (his favorite play), McDonagh cites filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Terence Malick as his chief influences. This has made him something of a renegade in the London theater world. So have incidents like the row he got into at a 1996 awards ceremony, when he had too much to drink and Sean Connery told him to shut...
...MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ON THE MALL IN WASHINGTON...
...determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical...
...testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods...
...tired of you and your mess now. And if you aren't out of this town in three days, we're going to blow your brains out and blow up your house." Shaken, King went to the kitchen to pray. "I could hear an inner voice saying to me, 'Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo I will be with you, even until the end of the world...