Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

About 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...

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Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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