Love and a Bullet  - Quotes

 Damien Wiles:
["America, The Beautiful" plays softly in background, with gradual crescendo throughout] Let me tell you something. There are no colors around here, Mister. No color lines. [referring to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr]
Damien Wiles:
I'm a believer in the teachings of your great leader, that a man should be judged by his character and not by his color. I take black kids off the streets, I clean 'em up, I give 'em a job.
 



Gummo  - Quotes

 Solomon:
[voiceover] My father worked the late shift as a bathroom attendant. My father was mugged on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For the rest of his days on earth, my father never celebrated this holiday.
 

Martin Luther King  - Quotes

 I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality 

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Spin  - Quotes

 
[first lines]
Brian Springer:
1992 was the year of kings. There was the L.A.P.D. beating of Rodney King videotaped from an apartment balcony and the hovering coverage of TV cameras and helicopters circling the city as the public rebelled. It was nearly twenty-five years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bill Clinton, a child of the '60s, was campaigning to become commander-in-chief, a king among the contenders.
Off-screen voice:
Hold on just a minute, here's Larry King.
Larry King:
Hello?
Brian Springer:
Then there was Larry King, who was anointed as the father of talk-show democracy, because TV viewers could phone his program and ask the candidates questions on the air.
 



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