Darryl Pinckney Quotes

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

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.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

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.

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.

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

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.

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'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

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

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

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

Let me say … how deeply grateful all people of good will are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality.

I cannot sit by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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