Martin Luther King Jr. on race

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’

Colin Powell1937–2021

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

Jesse Jackson1941–2026

I think it’s insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It’s an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you’ve experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.

Rush Limbaugh1951–2021

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