Cynthia McKinney Quotes

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King.

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were killed within two months of each other. I think I was 14 when Watergate happened and a president was impeached. So between my birth and age 14, I just saw a lot of turmoil.

Selma was the turning point.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.

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 heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

Dr. King challenged our country to fulfill the promises of liberty, equality, and justice prescribed in the founding of our great nation. Leading by example, he stressed the teachings of tolerance, service, and love, regardless of race, color, or creed.

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

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

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

My one wish before I die is to talk to Bremer. I want to find out who he did it for. He did it for somebody else.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Maybe for you in America, Dr. King has become boring because you hear about him so much. But for me, he is the man who has most inspired me.

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