Everyone has the potential to be great, because everyone…

Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

— Cornel West

I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in…

— John F. Kerry

When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their…

— Frank Wolf

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and…

— Coretta Scott King

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

— Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

— Jack Schwartz

“It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and the oppressor.”

— Chinua Achebe

“Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the highest point of Jesus’s life was the moment when he forgave his executioners,”

— Karen Armstrong

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

— Fred Hampton

I need to hear something about how he's going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if…

— Al Sharpton

I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of…

— Cornel West

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the…

— Cornel West

“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered his last…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

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— Oskar Schindler