Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
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.
The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.
I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.