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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“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel—farewell! farewell!”
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.”