I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

History will treat me right.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.