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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights in the United States through the use of nonviolence and sometimes civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

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Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

—Martin Luther King Jr.