Luther Quotes · Page 16

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

— Bill Ayers

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy…

— Coretta Scott King

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards…

— Adam Schiff

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King…

— Jonathan Kozol

“With reference to the elect we might distinguish between three classes. First, there are those who are satisfied with God’s will, as…

— Martin Luther

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

— Malcolm X

You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in…

— Don King

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's…

— Melissa Etheridge

In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came…

— Robert Reich

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham,…

— James A. Forbes

In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far,…

— J.R. Ward

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

— Cornel West

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan…

— Malcolm X

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than…

— Henry Rollins

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a…

— Manning Marable

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

— Julien Benda

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants.…

— David Brooks

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green…

— Justin Townes Earle

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of…

— Ramsey Clark

“Well, there is nothing we can do about it. We have to put up with these snakes, dogs, and swine surrounding us…

— Martin Luther

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast…

— Gustave Le Bon

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

— Alveda King

Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can…

— Shelby Steele