About Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968
American Baptist minister and civil rights activist whose leadership was instrumental in the American civil rights movement. His words on justice, love, and courage endure as moral touchstones.
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
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“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”