Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
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I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
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 have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
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