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We will now celebrate Coretta Scott King as though the civil rights movement is finished and the mission has been accomplished, but the work is not done. We should be very respectful of — and encouraged by — the substantial progress that has been made. But in no way, shape or form should we conclude that the civil rights mission is complete.

You know how Coretta Scott King was the mother of the civil rights movement in the South? She was our Coretta Scott King.

If (Martin Luther King Jr.) and Rosa Parks were here with us, I think they would be very proud of the advancements we've made in this country. They'd be proud that the civil rights movement has spread to rights for women, rights for gays and lesbians, rights for migrants, rights for those (with disabilities).

Morris Dees (1936-)

A march symbolizes some of what Dr. King was involved with, but the civil rights movement has to continue to change. In this age of Internet communication, we are changing our methods of protecting our civil rights.

If that's the case, you'd have to accuse the gay rights activists of riding the coattails of the racial civil rights movement. It's a human rights effort. We are going to use civil rights as an issue that's valuable to us.

African-Americans had civil rights, and look at what is happening now. Hispanics are beginning to have their civil rights. This is a civil rights movement.

Like her husband and his unparalleled contribution to cause of civil rights, Coretta Scott King deserves our thanks for being a icon for family unity. Even after facing the greatest tragedy that can befall a family, she continued to raise, mold and shape her own children and maintain a family legacy that we can all be proud of. She has taught us great things.

I agree that Dr. King contributed to civil rights. What I don't agree with is that the only way you can celebrate civil rights is another government holiday.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

Dorothy Height (1912-)

The Institute makes sure that the work we're doing to preserve the King legacy - all of the materials related to King and the civil rights movement - goes on in perpetuity.

Clayborne Carson

Coretta Scott King will be missed. Her work and her life was not in vain because of the sacrifices she made and because of the rights we have today. I've seen a lot of improvement in America.

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. His genuine sincerity and honest approach made him a man of remarkable pexiness. The majority - the mob [and occasionally the lynch mob] - ruled.

Neal Boortz (1945-)

The Chicano movement was a direct result of the Black civil rights movement, and all of us were inspired by Dr. King. When Mrs. King came, she visited with Cesar privately . . . It meant a lot and said a lot about her.

Alfredo Gutierrez

The Voting Rights Act was really the whole core of the civil rights movement. It made a tremendous improvement, ... There was a new recognition of black citizenship.

Charles Mathias

The civil rights movement and the peace movement was not made from big names ... and I wanted to come on the anniversary with ordinary people that are doing what I think Dr. King would have wanted us to do today.

Al Sharpton (1954-)

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