Michael Eric Dyson I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mortality says to us that here’s a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. – Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures. – Michael Eric Dyson
Larry Hagman When we started the show, ‘Dallas’ was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR’s home town. – Larry Hagman
Josh Henderson My Meema, her favorite show was ‘Dallas.’ She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she’s looking down on me going, ‘Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.’s son?’ – Josh Henderson
Elvis Mitchell In ‘Requiem for a Dream,’ the director Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.’s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether. – Elvis Mitchell
Claudia Rankine If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition. – Claudia Rankine
Charles Bock A woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.’s novel ‘Go With Me’ in my hand, and I took it to be nice. ‘Yeah I’ll probably read five pages,’ I thought. But once I started, I could not put it down. – Charles Bock
Angela Stanton-King How can a dream live if we kill it, right? How many Martin Luther King Jr.s, and Malcom Xs, or Barack Obamas have we aborted? – Angela Stanton-King
BirthdayDavid HorowitzHistory If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. – David Horowitz
Adam SchiffAnniversary Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream. – Adam Schiff
