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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
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.
When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.
I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
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.
It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
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.
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 think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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.
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 said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.
I started listening to old school R&B artists like Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, and Donny Hathaway when I was in 6th grade.
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.
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
Luther Campbell is the only person that has ever paid me for sampling me. I'm out for the rest of 'em, but the young man paid me.
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?
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
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.
People know my characters like Alice Morgan in 'Luther' or Alison Bailey from 'The Affair.' For me, that's a compliment, a kind of joy.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.