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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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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”
“Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning.”