Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
The end that we seek is a society at peace with itself.
Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, Clergyman & Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Peace Laureate, Quoted on PBS Trailer, January 16, 1989
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When the left in Spain began calling for a workers revolution, the right and the clerics called for “peace and harmony.”
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.