“We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Statement of 30 January 1956, in Stride Toward Freedom (1958)

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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