Country Quote by Raoul Peck

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

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

— Cornel West

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we…

— Andrew Young

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't…

— Jim Brown

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

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

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

— Strom Thurmond

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

— Yvette Clarke

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were…

— Jonathan Lethem

10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this…

— Malcolm X

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

— Malcolm X