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Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • I see a picture of some slaves, and three hundred pages later I see Martin Luther King.†   (source)
  • It was Martin Luther King Day, our last day before classes started again, and I could think of nothing but having killed her.†   (source)
  • It had been through the ceiling one night in April, when Ashoke and Ashima were eating their dinner, that they'd heard about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and just recently, of Senator Robert Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King had told them not long before the bullet took him down to his martyr's grave that he had been to the mountain.†   (source)
  • Then came the period when people we knew—not knew personally, but knew of— started falling to the ground: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy.†   (source)
  • She actually liked Malcolm X. She put him in nearly the same category as her other civil rights heroes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Kennedys-any Kennedy.†   (source)
  • He passed Second Presbyterian Church, from which Martin Luther King Jr. staged his last march before he was shot and killed—now abandoned and boarded shut.†   (source)
  • The plaza is a popular tourist destination not only because the giant map is fun to walk on, but also because Martin Luther King Jr., for whom Freedom Plaza is named, wrote much of his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nearby Willard Hotel.†   (source)
  • I got Malcolm, Martin Luther King, Jesus, and Muhammad Ali.†   (source)
  • Cleveland grew more divided by color and class, and both before and after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Nathaniel's general neighborhood— Cleveland's east side—was the scene of rioting, shoot-outs, looting, tear gas and firebombs.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife of the great freedom fighter Martin Luther King Jr., was on the podium that night, and I looked over to her as I made reference to her husband's immortal words.†   (source)
  • February is Black History Month, and someone had festooned the dining hall with posters of Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington Carver, and Rosa Parks.†   (source)
  • But, believe it or not, if, before you take the IAT, I were to ask you to look over a series of pictures or articles about people like Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela or Colin Powell, your reaction time would change.†   (source)
  • Often the key is a person with a knack for leadership: Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States, Mahatma Gandhi in India, and William Wilberforce in Britain.†   (source)
  • These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations -- Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin -- bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Some 350,000 spectators—a larger crowd even than would assemble for Martin Luther King's March on Washington eighteen years later—turned their faces upward to watch fireworks explode and spread their contrails over the Washington Monument, turning the Potomac's surface, for nearly an hour, into a mirror of reds and whites and yellows and greens.†   (source)
  • "I don't believe Martin Luther King Jr. went to Harvard."†   (source)
  • He pauses to look at it a moment— there hasn't been much sun lately-and decides today to opt for Martin Luther King.†   (source)
  • In Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. returned from Washington, DC, where he'd been received by Vice President Richard Nixon in the nation's Capitol, even though in his own state capitol he couldn't drink from the same water fountain as a white janitor.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King said in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.†   (source)
  • Old black men sit on the park benches to feel the sun on their face, and discuss whether or not that statue of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior really looks like him.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King was shot a month ago.†   (source)
  • Even standing here in the relative privacy of the Rose Garden with Martin Luther King makes Kennedy sweat.†   (source)
  • Ironically, the school was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. Annie Blair, one of the mothers, had moved north from Tennessee.†   (source)
  • We spend the next twenty minutes discussing the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr., Castro, Lyndon B. Johnson, and government goons.†   (source)
  • This week we've had a lot of Martin Luther King Jr. activities going on at our school, which I actually think is pretty cool.†   (source)
  • Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood, Martin Luther King, Jr.†   (source)
  • The man with the backpack paused for several seconds on the spot where Dr. Martin Luther King had delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, then proceeded up the final steps, into the memorial's central chamber.†   (source)
  • I was going to go through the famous town of Selma, so I decided to walk the route Martin Luther King and thousands of blacks had taken back in 1965.†   (source)
  • Finally we spoke of Martin Luther King and his teaching of passive but unrelenting resistance.†   (source)
  • When the lone rifleman murdered Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, the reaction among the students of Beaufort High School was explosive in its generation of raw, naked emotion.†   (source)
  • We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam.†   (source)
  • As Martin Luther King said in one of the last sermons he gave before his death, "You don't have to have a college degree to serve.†   (source)
  • In 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States.
    Martin Luther King = In 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States.
  • "Let's see Martin Luther King," Mtisha said.†   (source)
  • He would be one of those drum majors for freedom that Martin Luther King talked about.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. could not care less about the president's discomfort.†   (source)
  • He bought it for a buck out on Martin Luther King.†   (source)
  • But Martin Luther King Jr. is the man they've waited to hear.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. is on the front lines in this battle.†   (source)
  • And then there is Martin Luther King Jr.'s womanizing.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr., truth be told, is dull.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. is on the rise.†   (source)
  • Despite the triumph, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are not on the same page.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. has five more years to live.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. has found his rhythm.†   (source)
  • The president and Martin Luther King Jr. walk alone through the White House Rose Garden.†   (source)
  • One hour later, an exultant Martin Luther King Jr. meets with John Kennedy in the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s influence, like an echo of Gandhi's, prevails.†   (source)
  • My little sister Kathy and I would creep to the top of the stairs in our underwear, listening as the Big Kids had animated conversations about "changing the system" and "the revolution," extolling the virtues of Martin Luther King over Malcolm X and vice versa, and playing records by the Last Poets.†   (source)
  • Mother shut the door, revealing a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. that I'd put up four years before, when I'd learned of the civil rights movement.†   (source)
  • I watched myself walking with the reporter into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, then up the street to the Civil Rights Memorial.†   (source)
  • I spoke just hours before Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president and forty-five years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King, dear.†   (source)
  • Even though I knew these high-minded arguments would get me nowhere, I tried them anyway—Martin Luther King would be ashamed!†   (source)
  • Most of my immediate editors were white women, whom I found in general to be the most compassionate, humane, and often brightest in the newsroom, yet they rarely rose to the top-even when compared to their more conservative black male counterparts, some of whom marched around the newsrooms as if they were the second coming of Martin Luther King, wielding their race like baseball bats.†   (source)
  • And I proudly spoke in front of tens of thousands of people at INVESCO Field in Denver on a balmy August evening forty-five years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the historic March on Washington and just hours before President Barack Obama would take the same stage and at the same microphone proudly accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.†   (source)
  • I dreamed the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., knelt down and painted my toenails with the spit from his mouth, and every nail was red like he'd been sucking on red hots."†   (source)
  • In 1960, The New York Times printed an advertisement titled "Heed Their Rising Voices" that attempted to raise money to defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. against perjury charges in Alabama.†   (source)
  • The next name was Martin Luther King Jr. I had never seen his face before, or heard his name, and it was several minutes before I understood that Dr. Kimball didn't mean Martin Luther, who I had heard of.†   (source)
  • She had organized people and transportation during the boycott and done a lot of the heavy lifting to make it the first successful major action of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and she succeeded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King's nonviolent political struggle made freedom and equality sound like achievable goals.†   (source)
  • " I'm no Martin Luther King but his call to action is as relevant now as it was then, and I know that the only way I can atone for that child's death is to butt in, even when it's unpopular, even when I'm not in the mood to fill out a police report or get screamed down by an abusive parent in the grocery store.†   (source)
  • The judge ordered the district to make a plan to teach black students, and the school district announced that teachers at the Martin Luther King School would have to take sensitivity courses.†   (source)
  • And I'm not even sure what's making me so philosophical today—maybe it's just all this Martin Luther King Jr. stuff.†   (source)
  • And, I want to think it had little to do with America, with the faith of Martin Luther King and other great men whose words I heard back in Africa, and who made me believe in this nation's ideals of equality and freedom.†   (source)
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
    only light can do that.
    Hate cannot drive out hate;
    only love can do that.
    — MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
    BEFORE — The Middle of Nowhere†   (source)
  • Then along came Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Riders, along with eye-opening books like John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me.†   (source)
  • There was a kinship between the two, I said, that had been inspired by such great Americans as W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Martin Luther King Jr. As a young man, I idolized the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, who took on not only his opponents in the ring but racists outside of it.†   (source)
  • All of their questions were slanted in that direction, and when I reiterated that I was neither a Communist nor a terrorist, they attempted to show that I was not a Christian either by asserting that the Reverend Martin Luther King never resorted to violence.†   (source)
  • Cedric, having been fed a rich brew of Martin Luther King in-tegrationism by Barbara since birth, responds to the story's finale in a heartfelt way.†   (source)
  • As Martin Luther King Jr. put it during the American civil rights struggle: "We must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.†   (source)
  • And, as he walks, he feels solemn but grounded, a little like he used to feel strolling Martin Luther King Avenue in Washington.†   (source)
  • I told them that the conditions in which Martin Luther King struggled were totally different from my own: the United States was a democracy with constitutional guarantees of equal rights that protected nonviolent protest (though there was still prejudice against blacks); South Africa was a police state with a constitution that enshrined inequality and an army that responded to nonviolence with force.†   (source)
  • But now, as the bus rumbles through the gritty circus on Martin Luther King Avenue, it suddenly dawns on him.†   (source)
  • The scenes instantly take shape in his mind-the graffiti in the hallways, Mr. Taylor's classroom, the bus stop on Martin Luther King.†   (source)
  • He even stood a while under the letterless marquee of an abandoned movie theater a few blocks from the subway station on Martin Luther King.†   (source)
  • There's an April shower outside, steady but not too heavy, and he passes by the bus stop nearest the school, bound for Martin Luther King Avenue.†   (source)
  • The stop right in front of the school is usually quiet and empty late in the afternoon, while another one, a few hundred yards away on bustling Martin Luther King Avenue, is always hopping.†   (source)
  • Eventually, he arrived at the subway on Martin Luther King Avenue, took the train to a stop in downtown D.C., and then had to wait for the bus to get here.†   (source)
  • It's already 82 degrees at ten o'clock on a Monday in mid-May, as Barbara Jennings settles into a fabriccovered office chair, her hands folded in her lap, inside the United Planning Organization office on Martin Luther King Avenue.†   (source)
  • Various middleweight preachers showed up to eulogize him, led by the church's eloquent head pastor, Walter Fauntroy, a longtime aide to Dr. Martin Luther King and a Congressional representative from the District for twenty years.†   (source)
  • And all this, to support Martin Luther King Jr., a man of whom Bobby acidly commented just last night, "He's not a serious person.†   (source)
  • When it is done, thousands gather in the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak about the courage of the children.†   (source)
  • Nearly a decade after Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in 1968, the FBI files on his private life will be scaled until the year 2027.†   (source)
  • In the nation's capital, Martin Luther King Jr. is about to direct hundreds of thousands of civil rights protesters onto the Washington Mall.†   (source)
  • But Martin Luther King Jr. is every bit as educated, well-read, and politically savvy as the president.†   (source)
  • Johnson, working closely with Martin Luther King Jr., framed the issue in terms of JFK's legacy in order to gather support for the act.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Birmingham earlier in the spring to fight for integration.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. continued his civil rights crusading and became one of the world's most admired men.†   (source)
  • This is their expectation: that before this speech is done, Martin Luther King Jr. will say something so powerful that this day will never be forgotten.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the protesters before they set out from the church, reminding them that jail was a small price to pay for a good cause.†   (source)
  • The murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, coupled with the drawn-out American involvement in Vietnam, led to a national sense of disillusionment that was the diametric opposite of Camelot's hope and optimism.†   (source)
  • When Louis Martin's good friend Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed for civil rights demonstrations in 1960, Bobby swung support to King's cause by placing a sympathetic phone call to the reverend's wife, Coretta.†   (source)
  • AUGUST 28, 1963 WASHINGTON, D.C. AFTERNOON "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation," begins Martin Luther King Jr. His words are scripted.†   (source)
  • At 10:22 A.M. on September 15, 1963, less than three weeks after America listened to Martin Luther King Jr. dream about black boys and girls in Alabama joining hands with white boys and girls, twenty-six black children are led into the basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church for Sunday morning services.†   (source)
  • Despite—or perhaps even because of—the violence, the civil rights movement continues to gain momentum, and Robert Kennedy is now paying close attention to one of its most prominent leaders, a thirty-three-year-old charismatic Baptist minister named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reverend King is as intense and enigmatic as President Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Now Martin Luther King owns the crowd.†   (source)
  • Lily's voice shouted, "You white folks are happy to see Martin Luther King get shot, but you wait and see who takes his place.†   (source)
  • Three weeks before the assassination of Martin Luther King, I met on the West Coast with a group of black leaders to compare notes.†   (source)
  • "Don't buy that crap, Saul," I would shout, and the next moment Saul would appear bejeweled with peace medallions, Kennedy buttons, and rings with pictures of Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Cindy Lou soon sported enough junk jewelry to start a shop of her own.†   (source)
  • Whites told their black employees, and really believed it, that the NAACP and Martin Luther King were the black man's greatest enemies.†   (source)
  • Almost ironically, the person of Martin Luther King in life and in death became the touchstone for a whole new evaluation among black thinkers.†   (source)
  • With the beginning of the freedom rides, the sit-ins, the display of heroic courage and commitment on the part of many who engaged in these activities, and with the rallying around Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, that feeling of despair began to change into hope.†   (source)
  • When we would get together—with Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King, Sarah Patton Boyle, P. D. East, or any of the hundreds of more or less public advocates of civil rights—we compared notes and discussed this.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, with the exception of nationally known black civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, and others, the black male child frequently saw the adult black male as ineffectual and defeated.†   (source)
  • But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Mays, J. B. Blayton, L. D. Milton, A. T. Walden, John Wesley Dobbs, Norris Herndon of the Atlantic Life Insurance Company, banker-druggist C. R. Yates, W. J. Shaw, E. M. Martin, Rev. Samuel Williams, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Rev. H. I. Bearden, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., and his son, Martin Luther King, Jr.—each has contributed and continues to contribute to the American dream in its best sense.†   (source)
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