Quotes by Martin Luther King Iii - Page 2

There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Conscience
Human Rights
Carrying
Nonviolent
Unsung
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Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color do not receive appropriate justice in this country.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Appropriate
Receive
Skewed
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I think the best of us comes when we are working together collectively. And it doesn't mean that we can't disagree. We've got to learn, as Dad taught us, to disagree without being disagreeable.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Best
Dad
Disagree
Disagreeable
Mean
Taught
Together
Working Together
Being
Collectively
Without
Working
Got
Learn
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I don't know that endorsement's important, so I'm not necessarily here to endorse, but what I will say is, if I was a Canadian resident, I would support my friend and his party, Justin Trudeau.
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Justin
Endorse
My Friend
Resident
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Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.
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Authority
Justify
Mindset
Self Serving
Empowers
Exercising
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I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.
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Adopted
Daddy
Blacks
Hating
Whites
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We've always had to bring some form of ID to vote. It's just that states have created new forms of ID that young folk and seniors and students and people of color, it makes it challenging to get.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
People New Young
People Always New
Folk
Id
New Forms
Seniors
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The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Congressman
Diligently
Fought
Lewis
Rights Movement
Williams
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There is no one policy that can end gun violence. But a ban on the sale of assault weapons to the general public is a critical goal that must be achieved if we are ever going to have peaceful communities.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Assault
Critical
General Public
Gun
Peaceful
Policy
Violence
Weapons
Achieved
General
Ban
Communities
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And I think that, at some point, I am, as John Lewis and many others, are a bridge-builder. The goal is to bring America together and Americans. We are a great nation. But we must become a greater nation.
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Great Nation
Lewis
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There's something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They've paid their dues to society, but yet their right to vote is not reinstated.
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Dues
Convicted
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Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
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Women
Great
Men And Women
Natural
Persuasion
Together
Tsunami
Want
Men Women Great
Men Women Together
Just
Come
Acts
Every
Earthquake
Ethnic
Fatal
Women Men Great
Help
Hurricane
See
Whether
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In terms of election issues, the urgent challenges we face include securing reforms to de-escalate the nuclear arms race, end voter suppression, improve health care for all Americans and alleviate the climate crisis.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Alleviate
Arms
Arms Race
Election
Nuclear Arms
Suppression
Urgent
All Americans
Include
Reforms
Voter
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African Americans and all people of color can benefit greatly by supporting the Clean Power Plan, which will help reduce the impacts of climate change and expand the use of clean, renewable energy from the wind and sun.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Climate Change
Renewable Energy
Wind
African Americans
All People
Expand
Greatly
Impacts
Reduce
Renewable
Supporting
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I think we have got to do a better job explaining to people why their vote does count. I think people feel disconnected from some of their elected officials, as well as the system, because, sometimes, it is very complicated.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Disconnected
Elected Officials
Explaining
Officials
Better People Feel
Better Job
Better People Sometimes
Count
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I mean if you stay engaged, and are constantly fighting, you don't have time to regenerate. So sometimes you have to take time to renew your strength and energy, so that you can come back and fight again in a constructive way.
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Constructive
Engaged
Renew
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Our obligation to fight pollution traces the roots of its persuasion to that same moral mountaintop from which my father lent his voice to the voiceless. The pursuit of civil equality in health helped build our environmental laws.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Environmental
Health
Moral
Obligation
Persuasion
Pollution
Pursuit
Roots
Voice
Voiceless
Build
Civil
Fight
Helped
Lent
Mountaintop
Traces
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In my view, nothing would do more to reduce violence in American cities than genuine full employment - a job at a decent wage for every person who wants to work. Numerous studies have shown that violence increases with unemployment.
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American Cities
Decent
Employment
Genuine
Unemployment
Increases
Numerous
Reduce
Shown
Studies
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If I woke up every day attempting to be my father, I would fail miserably. I think he was anointed. He was chosen by God, and there are few men or women in our world that will be chosen by God to make the kind of impact that he made.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Attempting
Chosen
Impact
Our World
God Men Women
Fail
God Women Men
Few Men
Woke
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African Americans are not going to be fooled by any group supported by industrial polluters. They know climate change is real and that we have to do something about it. Only 3 percent believe concern about climate change is overblown.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Climate Change
Concern
Fooled
Change Believe Climate
African Americans
Industrial
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The best way to overcome joblessness is to create a social contract between the public and private sectors to provide decent jobs for the unemployed. The decaying infrastructure of our cities is in urgent need of repair and restoration.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Best Way
Infrastructure
Joblessness
Restoration
Social Contract
Unemployed
Urgent
Overcome
Contract
Decaying
Repair
Sectors
Urgent Need
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On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was led by now-Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams, who worked with my father, Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Alabama
Civil Rights
Demonstration
Discrimination
Luther
March
Activists
Demanding
Lewis
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
Racial
Williams
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No one can tell any nation what it should want. The nation should determine what they want and how to make their nation become as best as it can become - all of us want our nations to be the best of what they can become, for our children.
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Determine
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But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Human Rights
Latino
Men And Women
Native
Second Class Citizens
Self Determination
Freedom Men Women
Agricultural
All People
Freedom Women Men
Impoverished
Native Americans
Second-Class
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Anyway, in 1966, Daddy had started to attack Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson was a good man. Even though he was a Southern conservative, Lyndon Johnson passed more civil-rights legislation than any other president in history.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Daddy
Good Man
Johnson
Legislation
Vietnam
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father's leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Leadership
Luther
Memorial
Humbled
Course
Forward
Gratified
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
Step
Step Forward
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I'm sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I'm certain my parents would agree it is gratifying to see young people leading social change projects in a multiracial coalition.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Activism
Agree
Gun
Response
Social Change
Youth
Applaud
Coalition
Emerged
Explosion
Gratifying
Leading
Pandemic
Young People
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America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Borders
Humane
Immigration
Immigration Laws
Obligation
Secure
Forefront
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I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where militarism and violence are reduced almost to be nonexistent.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Militarism
Poverty
Racism
Violence
Condition
Almost
Basis
Behind
Create
Deal
Frequent
Nonexistent
Reduced
Unacceptable
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President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle easy, and he doesn't harbor animosity, which were also characteristics my father had. But my father's arena was far broader than politics.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Animosity
Arena
Characteristics
Eloquence
President Obama
Broader
Harbor
Rattle
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I'm proud of my father, but my pride cannot be fully measured by that snapshot in history. Because contrary to first glance, my father's legacy comes not from his presiding over the final act in the drama of fighting for equal rights - his legacy is about setting the stage.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Contrary
Equal Rights
Legacy
Setting
Glance
Measured
Snapshot
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What we have still not learned is how to treat our fellow human beings... We have to find a way to coexist without doing harm to one another and that is whether it's in the United Stated or in the Middle East or in the African continent or in Asia or anywhere on the planet.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Asia
Coexist
East
Harm
Human Beings
Middle
Middle East
United
Another
African
Anywhere
Beings
Doing
Find
Continent
Without
How
Human
Still
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
Learned
Planet
Stated
Treat
Whether
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Because when we look at the modern civil rights movement under the leadership of my father and the team that he developed, it was at the federal level that we were able to appeal to bring about justice, whether it was in relationship to voting rights - just a number of issues.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Voting
Appeal
Federal Level
Rights Movement
Voting Rights
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You know, when you've idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn't want us to idolize.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Dad
History
April
Black
Black History
Idolized
Month
Show
Times
Lift
Put
Pull
Shelf
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If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn't we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God's highest creation.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Creation
Lifetime
Why Not
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When my father articulated his vision for the future, he expressed his wish that one day his children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. This dream was not just about me and my siblings, but about our children and their children.
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Judged
Sibling
Articulated
Expressed
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My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Leadership
Civil Rights
Concern
Focused
Human Rights
Civil
Deeply
Imperative
Increasingly
Numerous
World Peace
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You can win a victory in your neighbourhood. You can win a victory in your school. You can win a victory in your place of worship... Be ashamed of your existence until you've done a little something to make the world in which we all must live a little better than it was when you arrived.
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Ashamed
Worship
Neighbourhood
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The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will undoubtedly leave millions of Americans dissatisfied about the outcome, conviction or not. What must not happen, however, is millions of Americans feeling that the process itself violated the letter and spirit of our Constitution.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Conviction
Dissatisfied
Impeachment
Millions
President
Process
Senate
Trump
Itself
Donald
Donald Trump
Leave
Feeling
Happen
Must
However
Letter
Outcome
Trial
Undoubtedly
Violated
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Some people need a targeted kind of learning. They need a different approach, like charter schools. There are virtual classrooms that some will do well in. The reality is, if there are no options, if there is just one particular standard, then someone is going to fall through the cracks, as we've seen.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Learning
Approach
Charter
Charter Schools
Cracks
Different Approach
Fall
Just One
Particular
Classrooms
Options
Standard
Schools
Some People
Targeted
Virtual
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Our leaders should certainly engage passionate advocacy of needed reforms, and equally strong criticism of policies they believe are destructive to America. But, from the school boards to the White House, let's elect more candidates who are committed to constructive dialogue and reasonable compromises.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Advocacy
America
Boards
Candidates
Committed
Constructive
Criticism
Destructive
Dialogue
House
Needed
Passionate
Reasonable
School
Strong
White
White House
Certainly
Compromises
Elect
Engage
Equally
Reforms
Policies
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It's time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
America
Bipartisanship
Country
Destructive
Ideological
Partisanship
Policy
Political
Political Leaders
Solutions
Spectrum
Strive
Will
Need
More
Across
Time Political Will
Time Political Country
Time Country America
Earnestly
Finding
Forward
Leaders
Move
Realize
Understandable
Visionary
While
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My father would be very concerned about the environment. He'd be disappointed that we have hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of people who are living out on the streets in the wealthiest nation on the planet. He'd be greatly disappointed because he would know that we can, and we must, do better.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Disappointed
Streets
Greatly
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Millions Of People
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The Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States' resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Jobs
Environmental
Health
Agency
Bills
Carbon
Clean
Clean Energy
Climate Change
Combat
Electric
Energy
Environmental Protection
Greater
Limits
National Security
Pollution
Power Plants
Protection
Public Health
Reliability
Resolve
Security
States
United
United States
Utility
Change Health Environmental
Bolster
Bring
Public
Create
Demonstrate
Grid
Improve
Maybe
National
Plants
Reduce
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There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than there were during my father's time. But there is also reason for concern about new forms of racial oppression, such as measures to make it harder to vote, racial profiling and crushing public worker unions.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
American Life
Color
Concern
Corporate
Elected Officials
Harder
Integration
Officials
Oppression
Serving
Unions
Vote
Life Time People
Life Time Father
Worker
Forms
Public
Crushing
Elected
Measures
More People
New Forms
Profiling
Racial
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It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.
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Father
Florida
Party
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The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Children
Father
Mother
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