Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Facing the Challenge of a New Age." Address delivered at the First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change, Montgomery, AL, 3 Dec. 1956.
Alexander had an unusual absence of nationalism or even pride of his Macedonian customs and culture. His adolescent teacher was Aristotle whose broad education made Alexander a great conqueror and ruler of different races, cultures and religions. He turned the world, literally and figuratively, into his country and in order to rule over such a vast area, he had to depend on people of different races, religions, customs, and cultures. The diversity and multiculturalism of his empire with the paucity of racism and discrimination by the conquerors has never been reached again.
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.