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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― Mark Long, The Silence of Our Friends

“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“For all of the pedestals MLK is now put on, far above the reach of ordinary black Americans, Martin was in his life viewed as the most dangerous man in America.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Tell him that he and all of the other moderate Negroes who are getting somewhere need to always remember that it was us extremists who made it possible.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“He said he wanted to present an alternative; that it might be easier for whites to accept Martin’s proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X).”
― Alex Haley

“In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“You can't leave the show," King told Nichols. "We are there because you are there." Black people have been imagined in the future, he continued, emphasizing to the actress how important and ground breaking a fact that was. Furthermore, he told her, he had studied the Starfleet's command structure and believed that it mirrored that of the US Air Force, making Uhura --- a black woman! --- fourth in command of the ship.”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

“Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. 1967

“The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature, and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves, driven to their task either by the lash of a master or by animal necessities. It is the work of men who perform it for their own sake, and not that they may get more to eat or drink, or wear, or display. In a state of society where want is abolished, work of this sort could be enormously increased.”
― Henry George, Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“And you told us: the storm is rising against the
privileged minority of the earth, from which there is no
shelter in isolation or armament
and you told us: the storm will
not abate until a just distribution of the fruits of
the earth enables men (and women) everywhere to live
in dignity and human decency.”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“And you challenged us to breathe in Bernard Haring's words:
the materialistic growth--mania for
more and more production and more
and more markets for selling unnecessary
and even damaging products is a
sin against the generation to come
what shall we leave to them:
rubbish, atomic weapons numerous
enough to make the earth
uninhabitable, a poisoned
atmosphere, polluted water?”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“It doesn’t matter what you look like,â€� said the brave Bumbo McBlue.
“It only matters that what you say and that what you say is true!”
― JSB Morse, Bumbo McBlue Gets a Clue!

“You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“The modern world is the opposite of the aspiration expressed in Doctor Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech. In that speech, Doctor King stated his ideal vision of a future where his children would be judged not 'by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.' There is an even-greater obsession with race today and the external packaging we come in. Content of character is secondary, if not completely irrelevant.”
― Stewart Stafford

“¡Líbres al fin! ¡Líbres al fín! Grácias a Dios ómnipotente, ¡somos libres al fín!”
― Martín Lutero Rey, Híjo

“Together with a number of Negro and white reporters, I attended [Martin Luther] King's packed church. He spoke simply, emphasizing the nonviolent nature of the struggle, and told his congregation: "We are concerned not merely to win justice in the buses but rather to behave in a new and different way--to be nonviolent so that we may remove injustice itself, both from society and from ourselves. This is a struggle which we cannot lose, no matter what the apparent outcome, if we ourselves succeed in becoming better and more loving people.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“There were two sides to the fight for racial justice: MLK was on one, Malcom was on the other. Malcom and Martin had always been presented in this dichotomy... Martin was on the side of love and equality; Malcom was on the side of anger and separation... This same Martin/Malcom dichotomy is applied to all people of color, and especially black people, who fight for racial justice. A few of us are good and worthy of support. Those who manage to say 'not all white people' enough, who manage to say please, who never talk of anger, who avoid words like 'justice', who keep our indictments abstract and never specific- we are the Martins. Those of us who shout, who inconvenience your day, who call out your specific behavior, who say 'black' loudly and proudly- we are the Malcoms.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Daddy said, in 'I Have a Dream', this is a part that most people missed in his speech, 'We must forever conduct ourselves on the high plane of dignity and discipline.' He was talking about how we talk, too. Words are power. [...] Death and life and the power of the tongue. You can murder somebody with your tongue. So when people say 'I'm not violent' because they don't do anything physically, it's not that. For some reason, people think love is some namby-pamby weak kind of thing. It's not. [...] Nonviolence for us is a love-centered way of thinking.”
― Dr. Bernice A. King

“Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4, 1967, at the Riverside Church, he speaks out against the Vietnam War. People push back against King. They tell him he's not patriotic. In that speech, he says that there comes a time when silence is betrayal. He says he's about to say this criticism because he loves the country, not because he hates the country. He also, in the same speech, says America is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. But he says it's going to be a bitter but beautiful struggle to transform America, because he says the goal of America is freedom.

Now, that's perfect. That's brilliant. That's beautiful. He's telling us all the different sides of our country and he's inspiring us to do something about it - right? - but he's also not calling us villains. He's saying that we can actually transform and create and build this beloved community. But King wants us to tell the story of poor people, farm workers. He wants us to end militarization and materialism and racism. So what I think, again, I think everything comes down to storytellers and the story, everything. And I - and I'm serious about that. And so we need to tell ourselves a different story about America.”
― Peniel E. Joseph

“While we remember Dr. King’s legacy, I recall his iconic “I have a dreamâ€� speech. Understanding we must make time to propel that dream into existence for every little boy and girl that Dr. King dreamt of then, and for those that we pray for now. We must know that there will come a day when Dr. King’s dream won’t only be remembered to honor his birthday. No, it’s bigger than that. It will be described as the catalyst to all that heed the call to action and bridged the future of equality and equity. His words will be the wind beneath the wings of every boy, girl, man, and woman as they soar upward breaking through every glass ceiling of uncertainty and impossibility. Realizing they are Dr. King’s dream fulfilled.”
― Sabrina Newby

“It doesn't matter if your hair’s curly or straight,
Or your fur is blue or pink.
It doesn't matter if you're tall or short,
It just matters what you think!”
― JSB Morse, Bumbo McBlue Gets a Clue!

“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He had called it the most savage place he had ever seen. Now he revised his opinion: 'I think the people of Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate.”
― Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

“What did that Martin Luther King guy ever do for a white man? He was nothing but a black racist discriminating against whites left, right, and center.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, QualityLand