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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.

It is impossible to be angry for very long with a man who wears a wig. — Auberon Waugh

Liberty is about the right to question everything. — Ai Weiwei

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen

There is no noise as powerful as the sound of the marching feet of a determined people. — Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man: — John Steinbeck

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. — Cory Booker

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality. — Aberjhani

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. — Henry Louis Gates

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater. — Jared Diamond

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. — Rebecca Solnit

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.

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.

My decision to say no to the transplant wasn't about dying. It's about living. — Kirsty Jones

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.

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

My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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.