Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes


Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.


Citations

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Address at the Youth March for Integrated Schools." The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960, edited by Clayborne Carson, University of California Press, 2005, p. 188.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Born: January 15, 1929
  • Died: April 4, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Clergyman, Activist

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.