“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Speech, Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955)

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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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