R.K. King Quotes

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.

In Christ there is no East nor West.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Nothing else exists when art does.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

Sometimes you get into a situation and realize that there is so much more to explore there and ask, why are we jumping off the cliff quite yet?

I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

Justice seldom happens by accident.

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

We have too many mosques in America.

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.

Well take care of the counting.

The British government is a murder machine.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.