About Martin Luther King Jr.

Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement. (1929-1968)

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More from Martin Luther King Jr.

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Loving Your Enemies sermon (1957), published in Strength to Love (1963)
• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I Have a Dream speech (1963)
• Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'Sermon, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.The Drum Major Instinct sermon (1968)
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.Loving Your Enemies sermon (1957)
• The time is always right to do what's right.Address at Oberlin College (1964)

More quotes on courage

• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglass
• I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.Harriet Tubman
• I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.Harriet Tubman
• The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.Rosa Parks
• I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.Rosa Parks
• I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.Rosa Parks

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