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American · 1929-1968 · 14 quotes
American · 1929–1968
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Martin Luther King Jr. was the American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who, from the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to his assassination in Memphis in 1968, became the defining moral voice of the American civil rights movement. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 into a family of preachers, he earned a doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University and returned to the South to lead a movement that deployed nonviolent direct action against racial segregation. His Letter from Birmingham Jail, his March on Washington address, and his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964 are among the most important documents in American political history. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere; courage faces fear and thereby masters it; a man who won't die for something is not fit to live — the convictions of someone who tested them at the cost of his life.
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