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I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.
The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
I don't remember when I didn't know about Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.
I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.
Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.
Martin Luther King Jr. would say love not hate would make America great.
Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.
Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.
Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.
When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.
Playing Martin Luther King Jr. was an honor for me on so many levels. It was the most I've ever prepared for a role.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
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.
I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
How can a dream live if we kill it, right? How many Martin Luther King Jr.s, and Malcom Xs, or Barack Obamas have we aborted?
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?
I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.