‘These are not just thugs. She was attacked because she was Jewish.’

Francis Kalifat of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France, on the murder of an 85-year-old Jewish woman, Mireille Knoll, and on growing anti-Semitism in France. Knoll was a Holocaust survivor.

‘We take people at their word. We register people as they specify themselves to be.’

Tom Grilk of the Boston Athletic Association on the decision to allow men who identify as women to compete as women in the Boston Marathon. Critics argue that male physiology gives such men an unfair advantage over women in athletic competition.

‘I’m not going to talk about the 2016 election. … I’m still in therapy.’

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his lackluster campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

‘They are trying to get justice on the streets apart from understanding righteousness taught in our churches. And they will never find it. And at the same time we have a church or at least some segments of it that are preaching righteousness but will not fight for justice.’

Chicago pastor Charlie Dates speaking at an MLK50 conference in Memphis about young Americans “fascinated with justice, but they haven’t met the Author of righteousness.”

‘I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.’

Martin Luther King Jr., concluding his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. The next day an assassin killed him.