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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.

— Angela Davis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

— Ilyasah Shabazz

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

— Wynton Marsalis

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

— Morgan Freeman

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

— Al Sharpton

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

— Joe Biden

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

— Dinesh D'Souza

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

— Claudia Rankine

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

— Dorothy Height

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

— James T. Walsh