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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Reply during the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955), quoted in Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound (1982)

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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