Battle Quote by Skai Jackson

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

Dr. King gave his life to peace and justice and reconciliation between people, black and white, rich and poor, and he was a great…

— Kerry Kennedy

Dr. King challenged our country to fulfill the promises of liberty, equality, and justice prescribed in the founding of our great nation. Leading by…

— Steve Scalise

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and…

— Al Sharpton

“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist crusade calling…

— Michelle Alexander

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

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

We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the…

— Barack Obama

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Cornel West

Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you…

— Stokely Carmichael