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Violence is the language of the unheard.
As human beings, we are God's highest creation.
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
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.
Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.
Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm.
The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.
My mom and dad understood that every generation has to earn its freedom over and over again.
I just think we have to create the climate so that people will come out on election day and vote.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.
Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress.
I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.
As our nation has become more divided, there is a resonance for a message to bring people together.
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.
Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.
I think it's always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.
I think that it's appropriate to have the Confederate flag perhaps in a museum, but it is not a unifying symbol.
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.
I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'
My dad was not a tall man, but he always made me feel like he was a giant. I was never afraid when I was with him.
The true way generally when people don't understand your plight is when you decide to exercise your buying power elsewhere.
It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.
There are times when you need a strategic quarterback who has a proven record, and certainly, Colin Kaepernick is one of those.
I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America.
I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.
What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI's intent was, obviously, to break up the family.
The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.
And if we truly want a strong and secure middle class, we must restore the ability of labor unions to organize and represent working people.
Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.
When you've been raised in a home of love, and for your loved one to be taken away from you through violence, a lot of emotions go through your mind.
My dad was focused on trying to get a guaranteed annual income for all people in 1968, shortly before he was killed. He did not get to realize that dream.
No one in the planet can ever tell anyone else what they should do. For example, I do not go around the world trying to say somebody needs to be democratic.
But there is just no way to adequately prepare a 10-year old for the sudden loss of a much-loved father. It was a confusing time, with many painful moments.
The King Center in Atlanta specializes in educating people about my father's life, work and teachings, and we have resources and programs available for that purpose.
Our kids are reflections of us. How we interact with others, even in a hostile situation... how we respond and our children see that is how they are going to respond.
If our education system does not continue to improve and be enhanced and be innovative and almost be revolutionary, then we will continue to lose our place in the world.
Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.
My siblings and I were watching the evening news and we saw it flashed across the screen that our father had been shot... we just knew that something terrible had happened.
Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home.
According to who brings an issue to the table, people will get up and support it. It shouldn't be based on that. It should be based on whether the kids are performing or not.
Now, that doesn't mean that individuals can't have Confederate flags on their property. They have the right to do that. But again, it represents something that is not unifying.
It would be wonderful to have a president who talked about bringing America together and exhibited that, who was involved in doing a social project... that would show humility.
In the fifty years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we have made tremendous strides in the fight for equality. We must continue to move forward, not backward.
Reforms are needed to stem the tide of outsourcing good jobs to other nations and to educate and train American workers to meet the challenges of the 21st-century world economy.
I began to understand that not only was there was a social justice agenda, there was a policy agenda. For every justice campaign there was a policy initiative associated with it.
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.
Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter access in the legislatures of the 50 states.
I was 10 years old when my father was assassinated in 1968. Then, I had some sense of the sacrifices and hardships required of the families of a leader who was constantly in the news.