American history Quote by Kwasi Kwarteng

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

— Coretta Scott King

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in…

— Rodney King

Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if…

— Cornel West

If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were saying and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

— Clarence Benjamin Jones

The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at…

— David Oyelowo

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

— Martin E. Marty

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

That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,…

— Jules Feiffer

Martin Luther would be the headliner of any 'dead-or-alive dinner party' I would ever throw. He is, quite simply, one of the most fascinating…

— Ben Sasse

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book.…

— Maya Angelou