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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
— Timothy B. Tyson
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
— Abigail Van Buren
She had a pretty name but she knew she wasn't pretty.
— Jonathan Maberry
We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.
— Margaret Sanger
There is no noise as powerful as the sound of the marching feet of a determined people.
— Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.
— Gina Carano
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
— Frank McCourt
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
— Paul Theroux
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
— Henry Louis Gates
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.
— Frederick Lenz
A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.
— Sky Ferreira
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Right isn't always legal.
— J.S.B. Morse
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Evil must be attacked by ... the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
— George Takei
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself.
— Dave Pelzer
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
— Morgan Freeman
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
— James Luther Adams
Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.
— Swami Vivekananda
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
— Martin Luther King Jr.