#martin

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! ↗

— Martin Luther

#martin-luther #theology #theology

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#bring #bringing #dr #ever #exemplified

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#believe #does #dry #i #i am

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#anything #king #luther #martin #martin luther

To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss. ↗

— Iain Banks

#fiction #gothic #levis #change

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#gandhi #i #john #john lennon #king