Country Quote by Rodney King

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the…

— Cornel West

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the rule of…

— John Lewis

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

— Zulay Henao

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still…

— David Brooks

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade…

— Jimmy Carter

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 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