Authority Quote by Tom Perez

In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support…

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

— 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

“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums…

— John Nichols

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

“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other…

— Maya Angelou