Dexter Scott King Quotations

On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.