Came Quote by Robert Reich

Dr. King's last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less…

— Tom Perez

King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned…

— Tom Perez

Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift…

— John Hope Bryant

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man…

— Malcolm X

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white…

— Malcolm X

Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black…

— Jesse White

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors…

— Al Sharpton

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

“Most of the blacks who took part in the riots of 1966 and 1967 apparently did not expect much in the way of tangible…

— James T. Patterson

“One indicator of the self-conscious dissociation of radicals like Gitlin and Hayden from reformers like King is that neither of them, nor any other…

— David Horowitz

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of…

— Ernie Chambers

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions