Reputation, he said, is far more important than any guarantees on paper.
At the root of every protest lies some sort of official abuse: an improper procedure, a corrupt or high-handed bureaucrat, a right guaranteed on paper but ignored in practice.
Below are some of King's most famous speeches in which he foresees great social progress, rails against the evils of war and warns that American freedoms guaranteed on paper are not granted to all.
Israeli sources have said that guarantees made to Mrs Clinton in recent talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have drawn Palestinian objections and therefore need to be put on paper.
As the plight of New York, California and everywhere else unfolds in the financial press, short of a federal guarantee on muni paper, yields must work higher.
Al-Otaiba stressed that the UAE would be looking for stronger security guarantees, "something on paper".
In addition to such concerns about the ability of public bodies to uphold and guarantee commitments made on paper, there are still loopholes allowing the determined to teach creationism.
But the business has changed over the years, and of late MBIA has made a significant foray into guarantees on nonmunicipal paper.
All legal systems provide, at least on paper, guarantees that insure certain basic rights of the accused.
Pavlensky is a sort of absurdist descendant of Soviet dissidents, who demanded that the state follow its own constitution, which, on paper, guaranteed the rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
The constitution of 1952 officially established the Polish People's Republic and on paper guaranteed all sorts of democratic rights and freedoms.
