Lennie James Quotes

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.

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

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

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

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 think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

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

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

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

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King

I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.

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

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.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

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

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.