Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Interview by Robert Penn Warren. 18 Mar. 1964. Who Speaks for the Negro?, by Robert Penn Warren, Random House, 1965, p. 214.
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.