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This collection holds 185 martin luther king quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Ralph Abernathy, Kalidou Koulibaly and Ken Salazar.

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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 fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

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.

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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.

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.

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 have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.

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.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

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 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.

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?

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

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.

Listen, I'm a proud Democrat. My heroes are the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King. And I don't apologize for that and never will.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.

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