My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.
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Related Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. MORGAN FREEMAN We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American h... MORGAN FREEMAN To remember Martin Luther King means that his memory, the spirit and dreams are alive more than ever... HUGO CHAVEZ Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the min... BAYARD RUSTIN She's usually seen as the widow of Martin Luther King. But in reality, she's much more than that. DR. CORANN OKORODUDU Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King... JAY-Z Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality... DENNIS FARINA My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hop... ALVEDA KING Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America... JIM BROWN Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equ... ADRIAN CRONAUER Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civili... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON 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 Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m... MORGAN FREEMAN Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m... MORGAN FREEMAN The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, ath... BURGESS OWENS Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equalit... ADRIAN CRONAUER And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, f... JAMES CLAVELL Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America... DON YAEGER Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... ROBERT KENNEDY Lee-Jackson Day does not receive equal treatment in Virginia with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You wi... BRANDON DORSEY The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense... MALCOLM X Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will ... AYMAN ODEH 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 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. KEN SALAZAR I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent h... DAVID GARROW I believe it's very important for human rights and equal rights that we honor Dr. Martin Luther King... DAVID TORRES Martin Luther King said America had given a bad
check to black people. ANDREW YOUNG I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experien... YVETTE CLARKE I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why... MARTIN LUTHER KING Martin Luther King Day is unique because a lot of it (service project) is family friendly. It's a da... CHRISTINE BARTLETT If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class n... HENRY LOUIS GATES Make no mistake about it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a Hero of freedom. He is a Hero of justice a... JONATHAN CHEN Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against... CORNEL WEST Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see e... CORETTA SCOTT KING I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-ri... EMMA STONE The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not... MOLLY IVINS Martin Luther King used confidence and courage in his struggle for the Civil Rights movement. Those ... CHARLES SMITH Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank. DON KING Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to r... ADAM SCHIFF The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has prett... JONATHAN KOZOL I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the ... FRED HAMPTON In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. MARK LONG One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified ... ZACK WAMP One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. His life exemplified u... ZACK WAMP I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint. RALPH ABERNATHY The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like ... JOHN LEWIS We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to j... CORNEL WEST The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by ... MIKE PENCE He sees the world in very stark terms. Not good/ evil terms, but his own strict definition of right ... MARC GUGGENHEIM I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of t... MAYNARD JACKSON In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin... ROBERT REICH As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights ... ABHIJIT NASKAR After Dr. King's death, Mrs. King was determined to perpetuate the legacy of her husband, by serving... FRED GRAY No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a v... G. W. F. HEGEL For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique ... R. C. SPROUL One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a feder... HILLARY CLINTON Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajec... ABIGAIL WASHBURN President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief execu... DAVID GARROW I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. MADONNA CICCONE I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE. MADONNA Martin Luther King said that everybody should be free, and that's everybody. KAREN GREEN Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his p... AARON SWARTZ With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record ... PAUL MCCARTNEY Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I... BONO I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama... JAY-Z Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my... DAVID HAREWOOD Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King, no other person has had such a role in changing (the African... KWAME KILPATRICK My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an a... JEH JOHNSON We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King'... RODNEY KING To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Ma... JAMES WARD Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of c... SHAWN AMOS David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... DAVID NICHOLLS Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her... WILLIE PEARSON John Roberts is no Martin Luther King, Jr., ROGER WILKINS Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values. TAYLOR BRANCH Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I'd like to see Dolph Ziggler get involved in a really intense, personal feud that will bring ou... MICK FOLEY People take (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) as an opportunity to feel good, not as a challenge to do go... ERAN THOMPSON Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singi... BRUCE FORSYTH Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is n... JIM WALLIS I learned that Martin Luther King was buried in the Lincoln Memorial, and I didn't know the monument... MICHAEL HAYNES The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They... GARY SHEFFIELD Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki... RON FOURNIER When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal ri... WALTER KAUFMANN I'm trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, BILL BRADLEY I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War w... RADHANATH SWAMI I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be ... MICHAEL JACKSON I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have ta... RALPH ABERNATHY I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother. RALPH ABERNATHY I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the co... TAKI THEODORACOPULOS And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him k... BIBLE Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gon... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are go... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN But I want you to know," Cleo continued, "that there is hope. And that I am living proof of that hop... MORGAN RHODES If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr... RAMSEY CLARK His first rehab session was to take a five-minute walk, just around the Joyce Center. That progresse... SKIP MEYER
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