“It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.” PeopleFirstsTwoDreamRightsMovementMonthsKingsSpeechMajorsTownsCivil RightsCrucialLutherJuneAvenuesCivil Rights MovementTwo MonthsI Have A Dream Speech Author:David Maraniss
“Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws on his own. He's going to give us edicts, as if he's a king. And that is a petulant child. He's refusing to listen to the will of the American people, which is they reject his policies.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingChildrenLawLostPresidentPolicyKingsDecidedMajorityBarackRejectsSenate Author:Chris Christie
“Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.” PeopleKindDonePowerfulKingsTraditionAbandonRulersThings DoneBenevolentShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.” PeopleThinkingReadingTalkingStudyRiskStreetsKeysKingsHappeningsBusGuestsNonviolenceSpeakersOverwhelmedTaking Risks Author:Joan Baez
“There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsPersonsDreamWould BeGuyImagineStreetsMovementKingsOfficeDecidedVoteElectionOrganizeGod KnowsGood Guy Author:Joan Baez
“I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.” PeopleIfsThinkingPhilosophyCoursesJesusChristKingsJesus ChristLuther Author:Coretta Scott King
“People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.” PeopleUsedPurposeWaitingWillingKingsCommittedGods WillLutherAlways Waiting Author:Coretta Scott King
“Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.” PeopleKingsCall MePunkSaying NoDaftDaft Punk Author:Pedro Winter
“I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.” PeopleKnowsWayJobsPresidentPoorQualityBrotherBabyOughtKingsOfficeConcernedDearBeing TrueBarackAfghanistanVietnamHousingLutherPresident Barack ObamaGazaOvalDear Brother Author:Cornel West
“Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.” PeopleChristianCoursesJusticePoorKingsSoldierCommittedChaptersMatthew Author:Cornel West
“I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.” PeopleThinkingWantSaidGuyCrazyKingsInterviewsNutsThat GuyFlattered Author:Thomas Haden Church
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGivenSimplePowerfulAttitudeLordKnow HowRichHavensKingsCitizensOrdinaryGoldBitterTaoismFoxesCoatsGreedyDeliciousJewelsBeggarFurDelicacyResentfulOrdinary CitizensGreedy People Author:Zicheng Hong
“At network television you could make a show like Freaks and Geeks, and even though 7 million people watch is every week, you were considered a terrible failure, and they got rid of you and staff. Now ... It's like a world where the replacements are the biggest fans in the world. It's, the Elvis Costellos of television are the winners. Creativity is king and it's very very exciting.” PeopleWorldShowsWatchesCreativityMillionsWeekFansTelevisionKingsTerribleExcitingWinnerFreakStaffGeekReplacementsBiggest Fan Author:Judd Apatow
“Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.” PeopleIfsLooksChurchKingsSlaverySlaveOrganizedPopeSegregationLutherOrganized Religion Author:John Shelby Spong
“I know people who have donated big to presidents. I know people who have raised money big for presidents. And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization. They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them. And they brag about it. Which is fine. That doesn't bother me.” PeopleKnowsBigsPresidentPartyPolicyFineKingsPoliticianOrganizationRaisedTreatedBotherCandidatesInvitedGatheringBragSeminars Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The other cool thing is, even with Jessica [Johnson], or Daredevil, I had taken a break from those characters for a while in the comics, so I can enjoy the shows without the agita. I completely love the Daredevil show. I feel no physical connection to it, because it was 10 years ago since I wrote that comic, so I can just enjoy it. And when people connect it in a positive way to me, I go, "Well, that's very f - king flattering!"” PeopleWayFeelsYearsWellsI CanCharacterShowsEnjoyBreakTakenKingsYears AgoConnectionsComicJohnsonFlatteringCool ThingsJessicaDaredevil Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.” PeopleIfsWantKindSpeakBlackDifferencesForgetKingsShotsClaimsRevolutionaryBlack PeopleLutherNewtonWardrobeJordan Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentKingsBuddhistDifferent WaysDemonNonsenseDifferent PeoplesRobesDescribe Me Author:Dalai Lama
“One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably.” PeopleStatesHandsEyeMy OwnAbilityKingsOrdinaryQueensOrdinary PeopleNelsonHead Of StateKings And Queens Author:Kumi Naidoo
“[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.” PeopleMovementPositionKingsPicksLutherSingle People Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Donald Trump is appealing to, that whole expression, everybody who asked me, why is Trump able to win in those 16 people? There's a whole expression. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm not very good at prognosticating but I would not be surprised if he's the nominee.” PeopleIfsMenWholeAbleWinningLandExpressionTrumpKingsBlindVery Good Author:Joe Biden
“I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesSaidI CanBookAgeUsedFunCan DoHeardKingsMetsPagesPicksInspiredComicParksContributionCentsComic BookDrsLutherCan Do SomethingRosaMontgomeryFunny Book Author:John Lewis
“Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.” PeopleThinkingShouldSaidIdeasBlackTeacherKingsBusBlack WomenLutherMississippiBoycottDelta Author:John Lewis
“It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.” PeopleTwoBookYoungThreeGenerationsKingsInspiredParksMarchLutherRosa Author:John Lewis
“Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.” PeopleKingsMagistrates Author:Roger Williams
“We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.” PeopleThinkingKings Author:Aya Cash
“If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.” PeopleIfsSpeakKings Author:Joan D. Chittister
“One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.” PeopleDifferentAgeUsedFashionKingsShapesDaughterMy FriendsStonesGenderMagazinesMy BoyfriendOlder PeopleSharon Author:Nan Goldin
“I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.” PeopleIfsMeanWould BeCertainFeetKingsMetsSixTallBitesAggressiveBite MeCertain DeathCobras Author:David Attenborough
“For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.” PeopleKingsEssentialsOriginalsCaptureLutherHandful Author:Barack Obama
“I liked Jimmy Snuka, Tony Garea, Larry Zbyszko, Bob Backlund, Bruno Sammartino, Chief Strongbow, SD Jones (even though they never let him win), Captain Lou, Ted DiBiase...Uh...I'm forgetting some people...Greg Valentine. Chris Rock and Ric Flair are the best. Ric Flair is the king.” PeopleWinningForgetRocksKingsChiefsBobCaptainsValentineJimmyLarryFlair Author:Bill Burr
“Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but they were basically intelectuals: they were people who were doing critical, geopolitical analysis, talking about the decisions of the king were going to lead to destruction; condemning inmorality, calling for justice for widows and orphans. What we would call dissident intelectuals. Were they nicely treated? No, they were driven into the desert, they were imprisoned, they were denounced. They were intelectuals who conformed.” PeopleMeanJusticeDecisionTalkingKingsCallingDestructionCriticalDrivenTreatedDesertAnalysisProphetTestamentOld TestamentWidowsOrphanCondemningDissidentsGeopoliticalWidows And Orphans Author:Noam Chomsky
“We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.” PeopleIfsWantYearsDoeTwoReasonUseUsedHavensAmountKingsFairsYears AgoAttractiveTwo YearsCashTwo Years Ago Author:Warren Buffett
“What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.” PeopleAmericaGivenBlackNaturalKingsBlack PeopleLutherDisarming Author:Malcolm X
“If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayTwoJobsFightingOpportunityBlackWhiteRaceGroupsKingsEqualAddInstanceBlack PeopleFactoriesCompetingLutherJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.” PeopleMenMeanCountryFacesWhiteTeachSupportTakenDogKingsPoliceClubsBeastWhite ManLutherCaptivityDefenselessReverends Author:Malcolm X
“The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down.” PeopleYearsDoneTodayGoalBlackSleepForgetFourKingsMassHundredForgivingBlack PeopleLuther Author:Malcolm X
“Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.” PeopleMenLooksKindMayMotherSuccessfulWonderfulKingsBalanceEnvyBeing SuccessfulAggressiveSuccessful PeopleLutherNelsonMachoLamaTeresaDalaiWonderful Man Author:Desmond Tutu
“Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsSaidUseRunningJobsPresidentDecisionMoralMilitaryKingsDadProtectComfortableTestsEthicalProfessorsLutherBusiness Person Author:Barack Obama
“On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.” PeopleDreamNationsLeaderTrumpKingsProtectRainWeekendDrsSaturdayLutherIcyInaugurationDr Martin Luther King Author:Al Sharpton
“I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.” PeopleIfsNeedsTogetherSpiritChallengesHeardKingsHopefullyLuther Author:Al Sharpton
“I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination and oppression. What's difficult is to situate him ideologically under a particular category.” PeopleThinkingImportantPoliticalHumanityDifficultPoorViewsParticularKingsCommitmentFundamentalsOppressionRadicalAnalysisCategoriesDominationLuther Author:Cornel West
“Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.” PeopleHumansDreamHuman BeingsPoorKingsPerceptionDignityTreatedMainstreamAmerican DreamLuther Author:Cornel West
“The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.” PeopleWorldI CanDreamChristianJesusBlackCommunityPoorConsciousnessKingsCommitmentAround The WorldRadicalCollectivesGood LifeBlack PeopleAmerican DreamLutherMobilityIndividualisticNazarethUpward Mobility Author:Cornel West
“Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.” PeoplePoorKingsRadicalCommunistLutherMarxist Author:Cornel West
“We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.” PeopleWorldTryingKingsFlowFearfulLutherExtremismAlways Trying Author:Cornel West
“I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsStatesWould BeLastsAmericaUsedPoorFivePolicyExampleMovementKingsSpringGainsConcernedUnionsTrackJewCriticalInnocentCollectivesTreatmentAccountabilityMarchMassiveSovietForeign PolicySoviet UnionLutherSurveillanceApprovedDronesArab SpringInsurgencySurveillance State Author:Cornel West
“Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.” PeopleIfsRealWould BeBlackPresidentPoorSawsPolicyKingsCelebrateSubstanceUpsetLutherSymbolicPublic Policy Author:Cornel West
“If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.” PeopleIfsKindGovernmentSecretLibertySawsRightsStreetsSecurityPolicyWallKingsConnectionsCriticalInnocentAdministrationIntimateAgencyNational SecurityLutherDrones Author:Cornel West
“One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsYearsImportantTodayAmericaYoungFightingSocialJusticeSuccessfulOne ThingKingsMembersSocial JusticeCongressBunchBeing SuccessfulOur SocietyPushingMarchOld ManLutherImpatienceVigorMontgomeryGeorge Wallace Author:Keith Ellison