“By not just deeming her as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we pay homage to her. The history of this country remains incomplete without her rightful place in the annals of our scholarship.”
Willie Pearson
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.”
Senator John Kerry
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
“Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, moved our generation in the Samo way, Martin Luther King moved the World; by occupying all of man's, body and mind.”
Enrique Vega
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”