Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Citations
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Where Do We Go From Here?" A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by James M. Washington, HarperOne, 1986, p. 246.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr.