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“Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Palm Sunday sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (22 March 1959)
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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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