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“For some of you, the civil rights movement might seem like ancient history, but it was live, in living color.”

— Yolanda King

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More quotes by Yolanda King

"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."

"Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening."

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."

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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