Change Quote by Michelle Alexander

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights…

— James T. Walsh

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact,…

— Skai Jackson

“King became the movement’s voice and launched a new phase of mass protest. He was a disciple of the teachings of Gandhi and Thoreau,…

— Anthony R. Fellow

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

— Bill Ayers

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King…

— Bernie Sanders

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement…

— Angela Davis

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero.

— Harry Enten

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— 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

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

— Constance Baker Motley

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration…

— Cornel West

I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love…

— Cornel West