Civil rights Quote by Martin Luther King III

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

— Marianne Williamson

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

— Dick Gregory

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

— Linda Sarsour

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

— Malcolm X

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

— Anthony Kiedis

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about…

— Jimmy Cliff

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three…

— Bernice King

The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I would only…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement - fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare for dignity…

— Maya Wiley

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the…

— Vladimir Sorokin