Political Quotes

“Nothing would make Martin Luther King happier than if people were not traveling first class in his name. He was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, and you always travel third class. Nothing would make Martin Luther King more upset than not turning it into a day of work, service and action. That is what we have the opportunity to do now. The last time the Senator from North Carolina proposed terminating the modest expenditures for the Martin Luther King Holiday Commission, this body voted 86 to 11 to continue. It seems to me nothing that has happened in our country since then makes it any less important than the spirit of Martin Luther King be extended and remembered and be exemplified by those of us who are carrying on. Therefore, I think the signal to the country should not be a sunset on funding for Martin Luther King, but it should be a sunrise of action in this country in his name where we honor him not just by his words, of which there were no more eloquent in our history other than Lincoln's perhaps, but emulate his deeds and make this a day of deeds.”