Coretta Scott King Quotes

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

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

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

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.

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

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.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

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

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

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

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

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

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

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

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 don't remember when I didn't know about Martin Luther King.

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

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

I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."