"Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening."
— Yolanda King
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"To this day, my heart skips a beat every time I hear one of those special bulletins."
After recollecting her father's death to People magazine (1999)
"I am a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in the dream."
This accomplishment is a moment of triumph—but not for Martin Luther King Jr., he wouldn’t have cared one way or other, his was a very self-effacing spirit.
A Dream Deferred (1989)
"Jim Crow is dead. But his sophisticated, college-educated, urbane first cousin J. Crow, Esquire, is alive and kicking."
“For some of you, the civil rights movement might seem like ancient history, but it was live, in living color.”
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