And... even if you don't witness the success, you can be sure that someone in the future will benefit from what you've given. That was certainly true for Martin Luther King Jr. 
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Quotes about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., except for Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, may have done more to achieve political, social and racial justice than any other person.
said Clarence Jones
MY ENCOUNTERS WITH MALCOLM X AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: HISTORIAN'S PERSPECTIVE -- Mon., Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m. -- Mercyhurst College, Taylor Little Theatre -- historian John H. Bracey Jr., distinguished professor of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst -- free, open to public -- details, 824-3027. POSTSECRET
was said
in GoErie.com
Our overriding concern is for the safety of the visitors to the memorial, and there will be very large numbers ... Martin Luther King Jr. was a high-profile figure, and there are groups that are actively campaigning against the values that he espoused. We found quite a bit of that. It's a cause for concern.
said Peter May
It doesn't bother me if someone's trying to figure out what is the right thing to do according to God's plan ... The mere fact of someone trying to craft a policy that they think is in sync with what they think their religion or their God would want is fine. That's absolutely what Martin Luther King Jr. did ... It's what George Washington did.
was said
in NPR
Quotes from articles mentioning Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dollie has been my rock. She has been a powerful source of counsel to me, even until today.
was said
in News Blaze
I think that she was scarred from this experience. Yet, she didn't let her pain imprison her with hate. Instead, she transformed her pain into protest.
was said
in News Blaze
I think that Dollie was angry, angry at white people. From the time she was a child, right up to the time she was an adult, Dollie would watch her father, Aaron Wilson, cut her family members down from the trees, on which the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups had lynched them.
was said
in News Blaze
Dollie was a silent, unsung hero. She participated in every march that Dr. King organized. She provided Dr. King with valuable information, from the inside. She had a strong sense of justice. I think that is what motivated her to wage her silent, yet determined fight against injustice.
was said
in News Blaze
We're going to let the Blacks have their own cafeteria. We're going to let the men's bathroom be their cafeteria.
was said
in News Blaze
