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  • Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

    Kings   Ill Will   People  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press
  • As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

    Change   Kings   Rights  
  • Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice.

    Voice   Rights   Leader  
    "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
  • By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  • Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

    Life   Rights   People  
  • I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

    Kings   Rights   Wings  
    "Ministers and Marches". Jerry Falwell's sermon in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1965.
  • Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • 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.

    Kings   Kids   Rights  
  • Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

    Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

    Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3
  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

    Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4
  • What are you doing for others?

    Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr
  • I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

    Rights   Leader   Trying  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

    Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books
  • We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

    Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963
  • My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

    "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.
  • American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

    Past   Rights   Lynching  
  • Hate is too great a burden to bear.

    "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎" by Leo Parvis, (p. 54), 2006.
  • Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

    Leadership   Kings   Real  
  • The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

  • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

    "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
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