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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.
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.
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.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.
Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.