#luther

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#appoints #around #built #bush #career

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called. ↗

— Billy Graham

#calling #feel #felt #get #help

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. ↗

— David Horowitz

#birthday #carter #celebrate #congress #created

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#gandhi #i #john #john lennon #king

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

— Barney Frank

#hour #king #luther #martin #martin luther

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#below #black #children #classes #day

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. ↗

— John Legend

#biographies #bit #booker #civil #civil rights

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

— Don King

#i #king #luther #martin #martin luther

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations. ↗

— Rodney King

#expectations #hard #i #king #life

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us. ↗

— Rodney King

#country #far #instilled #king #luther