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Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then I ask myself,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street — Kinky Friedman
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people. — Andrew Young
Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and… — John F. Kerry
I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life,… — Maynard Jackson
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a… — Ron Fournier
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. — Barney Frank
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. — Morgan Freeman
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. — Morgan Freeman
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. — Henry Louis Gates
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below… — Henry Louis Gates
A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people.… — Billy Graham
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black… — Dick Gregory
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people,… — Rita Dove
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It… — Marian Wright Edelman
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including… — Jim Hightower
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look… — Jay-Z
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love. — Alveda King
People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like… — Rodney King
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. — Jonathan Kozol
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive,… — Jonathan Kozol
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. — Malcolm X
My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that… — Mandy Patinkin
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the… — Rand Paul
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same… — Carlos Santana

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