Laurence Fishburne Quotes

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes.

Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that, it's always interesting to note that it expanded the idea of democracy.

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke, and I remember the thrill I felt when we were introduced to him. To have him shake your hand was an absolutely unforgettable experience.