Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
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.
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
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.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.
Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
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