Mlk's Quotes

#1. An entire nation shook under the power of one man's [MLK's] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.

Wayne Cordeiro

#2. The FBI's search for MLK's killer began, a manhunt that would become the largest in American history,

Hampton Sides

#3. When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country.
- Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream

Cornel West

#4. I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.

Hampton Sides

#5. In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Timothy B. Tyson

#6. The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

Lynn Schusterman

#7. It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.

Joel Stein

#9. You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. The god of sex specializes in taking you further than you ever intended to go.

Kyle Idleman

#11. One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

Peter Rollins

#14. We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

Marita Golden

#15. I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Janet Fitch

#16. You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.

R.J. Palacio

#17. I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.

Zach Condon

#18. I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary;
Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary,
You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.

Killer Mike

#19. King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#20. The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Theodore Sturgeon

#21. No matter the difficulty, no matter the danger. He inspire them like no other since or before.

Arthur Flowers

#22. You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. Just as you won't enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won't even wait to learn from people you hate.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

Lynn Schusterman

#25. Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

Colum McCann

#26. 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.

#27. Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch." "Or milk," Deborah said. "Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap.

Jeff Lindsay

#28. I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

Rush Limbaugh