Coretta Scott King
Related I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON YVETTE CLARKE Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remem... FRANK WOLF BILLY GRAHAM JOHN LEWIS JIM WALLIS RODNEY KING ADAM SCHIFF Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her... WILLIE PEARSON ZACK WAMP ZACK WAMP ADRIAN CRONAUER President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief execu... DAVID GARROW BILL CLINTON JAY-Z HILLARY CLINTON SHAWN AMOS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course ... CLAUDIA RANKINE Mark Antony in his famous funeral oration in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' says that he came not to ... LEE HARRIS If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is ... DAVID HOROWITZ PAUL HAWKEN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.&#... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Latino media, both print and broadcast, have played an important role (in bringing people out), espe... FELIX GUTIERREZ Our families, the Scott and King families, have been chosen to lead what I feel is a movement toward... EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY ROBERT REICH Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. ... LOUIE GOHMERT MYLES MUNROE I believe it's very important for human rights and equal rights that we honor Dr. Martin Luther King... DAVID TORRES Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki... RON FOURNIER ADRIAN CRONAUER MOLLY IVINS CORNEL WEST ROBERT KENNEDY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON People take (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) as an opportunity to feel good, not as a challenge to do go... ERAN THOMPSON As we move into the 21st century, it's going to be incumbent upon all of us to realize that while Ma... BERNICE KING Lee-Jackson Day does not receive equal treatment in Virginia with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You wi... BRANDON DORSEY CORETTA SCOTT KING Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. KEN SALAZAR EMINEM In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends.MARK LONG CORNEL WEST John Roberts is no Martin Luther King, Jr., ROGER WILKINS Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajec... ABIGAIL WASHBURN It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's... BRODY ARMSTRONG We also sponsor the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday celebration every third Monday of Januar... BOBBY JACKSON HENRY LOUIS GATES RODNEY KING DAVID CASSIDY It's sad that on the day we remember Martin Luther King Jr., that a small minority of people believe... FRAN DUNAWAY JOHN MACKEY JIM ELLIOT JEH JOHNSON JENNIFER GARNER We ask all those tens of thousands of people who stood in line to view the body of Coretta Scott Kin... DON EDWARDS SUE MONK KIDD DAVID HAREWOOD I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent h... DAVID GARROW It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the p... JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON RICK WARREN It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business t... ANDY SAMBERG You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words &... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON MORGAN FREEMAN By not just deeming her as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we pay homage to her. The history ... WILLIE PEARSON LIL WAYNE MALCOLM X MORGAN FREEMAN DOUGLAS CONANT racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only raci... MICHELLE ALEXANDER If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a peopl... LAURA OSNES KELLEY ARMSTRONG Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ... CARLOS ALAZRAQUI We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON HUGO CHAVEZ OLYMPIA SNOWE It was not enough for Martin Luther King, Jr. to dream about equality. He had to rise and become the... BLANCHE HUGHES I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ... HALEY BENNETT DANIEL GOLDSTEIN BURGESS OWENS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Great American leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worshipped God just as our Founding Fathers ... STEVE KING ANDREW YOUNG BONO JAMES PATTERSON JIM WALLIS ZADIE SMITH JEFFREY TOOBIN MIKE PENCE ISRAELMORE AYIVOR WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN R. KELLY BILL MARIS A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of ... BILLY RAY CYRUS A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have heal... NATALIE COLE
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Vanity asks: Is it popular? But cons... DEXTER SCOTT KING I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid. DEXTER SCOTT KING What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litiga... DEXTER SCOTT KING How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched SCOTT STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. ALAN KING KING SOLOMON STEPHEN KING People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ... TABITHA KING Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. TABITHA KING In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe... TABITHA KING Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. TABITHA KING Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#... GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota... KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ... KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ... KAKI KING I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t... KAKI KING I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. KAKI KING I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and... KAKI KING The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning... KAKI KING I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ... KAKI KING I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th... KAKI KING I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. KAKI KING Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes. 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GAYLE KING If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped. DON KING I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr... JAIME KING In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set. KING VIDOR STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo... DON KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up... GEORGIA KING Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard ... GAYLE KING LARRY KING STEPHEN KING Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re... 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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experien... 
A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to hel... 
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe... 
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is n... 
People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I shou... 
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to r... 
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified ... 
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. His life exemplified u... 
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equ... 
We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice. We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of u... 
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama... 
One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a feder... 
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of c... 
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. Tha... 
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin... 
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. Th... 
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equalit... 
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not... 
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to j... 
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... 
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class n... 
We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King'... 
Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a lit... 
At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lo... 
No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God ma... 
What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an a... 
Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It's ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so sil... 
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of &#... 
My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his orat... 
The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it... 
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m... 
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out... 
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense... 
Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's ... 
Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren'... 
I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. 
Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civili... 
To remember Martin Luther King means that his memory, the spirit and dreams are alive more than ever... 
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and ... 
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your o... 
The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, ath... 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday ... 
Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I... 
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role mode... 
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't li... 
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of ... 
The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by ... 
True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress wi... 
I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a go... 
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm... 
The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier live... 
On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the gro... 
During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable cr... 
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... 
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. 
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ... 
People would pay money to work at CNN. 
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don... 
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit... 
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. 
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been ... 
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti... 
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou... 