“ Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ It may sound strange, but I get the inspiration for most of my Dreams while I'm sleeping. Mark W. Boyer
“ To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin. Rev. Corey M. Osborne
“ Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided agai… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the li… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin… Pat Conroy
“ The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, a… Timothy B. Tyson
“ In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted b… Aberjhani
“ Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality. Aberjhani
“ It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted. Aberjhani
“ The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was rid… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast—oh I mean bitch. But nowI truly think that if greats who devoted themselves and achieved in some wa… Chelsea Ballinger
“ Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel. Israelmore Ayivor
“ As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights of the citizens, I confer him (B.R. Ambedkar) the title “Martin Luther King Jr. of India. Abhijit Naskar
“ Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t es… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. Sammy Davis, Jr.
“ In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrus… Elbert Guillory