Words matter. These are the best Martin Luther King III Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn’t we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God’s highest creation.
The best way to overcome joblessness is to create a social contract between the public and private sectors to provide decent jobs for the unemployed. The decaying infrastructure of our cities is in urgent need of repair and restoration.
Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only way you change is you have to at least be communicating.
You can win a victory in your neighbourhood. You can win a victory in your school. You can win a victory in your place of worship… Be ashamed of your existence until you’ve done a little something to make the world in which we all must live a little better than it was when you arrived.
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.
On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was led by now-Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams, who worked with my father, Martin Luther King Jr.
I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.
I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where militarism and violence are reduced almost to be nonexistent.
One of the things my dad and mom worked on throughout their lives was the eradication of poverty.
I’m proud of my father, but my pride cannot be fully measured by that snapshot in history. Because contrary to first glance, my father’s legacy comes not from his presiding over the final act in the drama of fighting for equal rights – his legacy is about setting the stage.
It’s going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
Some people need a targeted kind of learning. They need a different approach, like charter schools. There are virtual classrooms that some will do well in. The reality is, if there are no options, if there is just one particular standard, then someone is going to fall through the cracks, as we’ve seen.
Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.
I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father’s leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.
I had the opportunity with my brother to travel with my father probably seven or eight times. The last experience was in 1967, just a few months before he was killed.
The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will undoubtedly leave millions of Americans dissatisfied about the outcome, conviction or not. What must not happen, however, is millions of Americans feeling that the process itself violated the letter and spirit of our Constitution.
Violence is the language of the unheard.
I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.
The true way generally when people don’t understand your plight is when you decide to exercise your buying power elsewhere.
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.
I think we have got to do a better job explaining to people why their vote does count. I think people feel disconnected from some of their elected officials, as well as the system, because, sometimes, it is very complicated.
African Americans are not going to be fooled by any group supported by industrial polluters. They know climate change is real and that we have to do something about it. Only 3 percent believe concern about climate change is overblown.
Many feel that in today’s climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, ‘ends justify the means’ mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.
We’ve always had to bring some form of ID to vote. It’s just that states have created new forms of ID that young folk and seniors and students and people of color, it makes it challenging to get.
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.
As human beings, we are God’s highest creation.
The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.
You know, when you’ve idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn’t want us to idolize.
African Americans and all people of color can benefit greatly by supporting the Clean Power Plan, which will help reduce the impacts of climate change and expand the use of clean, renewable energy from the wind and sun.
I just think we have to create the climate so that people will come out on election day and vote.
There is no one policy that can end gun violence. But a ban on the sale of assault weapons to the general public is a critical goal that must be achieved if we are ever going to have peaceful communities.
I mean if you stay engaged, and are constantly fighting, you don’t have time to regenerate. So sometimes you have to take time to renew your strength and energy, so that you can come back and fight again in a constructive way.
Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.
I’m sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I’m certain my parents would agree it is gratifying to see young people leading social change projects in a multiracial coalition.
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.
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.
I think it’s always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.
