You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice,
sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.