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Related He's certainly been exposed to the civil rights community in unparalleled fashion, ... The name Mart... JOSEPH LOWERY If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course ... CLAUDIA RANKINE HENRY LOUIS GATES ANDREW YOUNG Martin Luther King used confidence and courage in his struggle for the Civil Rights movement. Those ... CHARLES SMITH I believe it's very important for human rights and equal rights that we honor Dr. Martin Luther King... DAVID TORRES MALCOLM X BARBARA EHRENREICH GEORGE TAKEI JIMMY CARTER JACK CANFIELD JAMES HANSEN BOB BECKEL MORGAN FREEMAN KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR MORGAN FREEMAN I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, ... DICK GREGORY I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, ... DICK GREGORY I think Portia's election definitely changes the status quo because it's never been done before, and... MARLON HILL In Haiti, we call him our Martin Luther King. LAVARICE GAUDIN EMMA STONE Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King, no other person has had such a role in changing (the African... KWAME KILPATRICK PATTI SMITH In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA PAT CONROY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the ru... NEAL BOORTZ JAY-Z RADHANATH SWAMI It, in part, derives from experiences the family, and Mrs. King in particular, had over the years wh... CLIFFORD KUHN Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will ... AYMAN ODEH I think Martin Luther King is still around in spirit. When I was kid, they always had the videos of ... EDDIE GREEN NOAM CHOMSKY Dr. King stood for all people. He said it's not a black and white issue, it's all encompassing. Unti... AL CADE I learned that Martin Luther King was buried in the Lincoln Memorial, and I didn't know the monument... MICHAEL HAYNES In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. TIMOTHY B. TYSON CHARLES B. RANGEL JACKIE ROBINSON JAY-Z We got to walk up the hill for Martin Luther King. He helped people become what they are today. KATHY BURNS MORGAN FREEMAN I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that ce... TODD HAYNES Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a (expletive) dream, too. SARAH SILVERMAN I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN AL SHARPTON JOHN LEWIS MORGAN FREEMAN JOHN LEWIS They, in their own way, continued to carry the torch that Martin Luther King did. ANTHONY JONES MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they had... JERRY HELLER MALCOLM X JOHN LEGEND The Democrats have certainly never been satisfied with the status quo, with economic inequities and ... BILL MAER As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat... N. K. JEMISIN There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON A. PHILIP RANDOLPH CARLOS SANTANA The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept i... TIMOTHY B. TYSON SAMMY DAVIS JR. We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant... JOSHUA HOYT Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values. TAYLOR BRANCH I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was... SAM PHILLIPS LOU BROCK DAVID CAMERON It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born. CLAYBORNE CARSON The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses... NATE SILVER You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, HARMON OKINYO Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil... DICK GREGORY DAVID HAREWOOD I wouldn't have gotten as far I have if it wasn't for Martin Luther King. I am not viewed as just a ... DOROTHY HARRIS ABHIJIT NASKAR I didn't know there were so many black-and-white dogs in the state of Indiana. JANALEE GALLAGHER It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there ... ISABEL WILKERSON I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother. RALPH ABERNATHY The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain ... JAMES A. FORBES She's usually seen as the widow of Martin Luther King. But in reality, she's much more than that. DR. CORANN OKORODUDU The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history. LISA MURKOWSKI MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The Institute makes sure that the work we're doing to preserve the King legacy - all of the material... CLAYBORNE CARSON CARL ROWAN CARL ROWAN CARL T. ROWAN CARL T. ROWAN JIDENNA Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You BROOKE BIDA Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people w... ILYASAH SHABAZZ Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a... WERLEY NORTREUS Martin Luther King said that everybody should be free, and that's everybody. KAREN GREEN ROBERT KENNEDY JACKIE ROBINSON ZACK WAMP ZACK WAMP JOHN LEWIS Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed woul... DOUGLAS WILDER ANNA DEAVERE SMITH John Roberts is no Martin Luther King, Jr., ROGER WILKINS ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her... WILLIE PEARSON
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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class n... 
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad
check to black people. 
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense... 
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K... 
I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ... 
We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu... 
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil ... 
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of... 
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schoo... 
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m... 
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the sta... 
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-ri... 
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great v... 
Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls... 
I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-... 
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama... 
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War w... 
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the... 
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Ma... 
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black ... 
We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American h... 
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's f... 
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe... 
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later... 
I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because t... 
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents... 
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quaranti... 
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody,... 
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay... 
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in be... 
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther Kin... 
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my... 
As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights ... 
When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by... 
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... 
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... 
I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we... 
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... 
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified ... 
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, ... 
If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity. 
When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. 
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. 
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. 
It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because ... 
I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they ... 
I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen... 
I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at R... 
The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience. 
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. 
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. 
To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.". 
Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen. 
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times th... 
I love getting dressed up and glamorous for the red carpet. It makes me feel powerful and sexy!