5 Martin Luther King Quotes

#1. We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.

Cynthia McKinney

#2. If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Ramsey Clark

#3. If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

Kwasi Kwarteng

#4. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.

Marianne Williamson

#6. [Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

Miriam Makeba

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

Malcolm X

#8. 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 the freedom of collective bargaining ... . We demand this fraud be stopped.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

Abraham Maslow

#10. Thinking of them reminds me of a quote I read recently from the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that says, "If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl." We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward.

William Kamkwamba

#11. Since you can't be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

Henry Johnson Jr

#14. The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Christine Quinn

#15. We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol