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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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”