About Dr. King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a scholar and minister who led the civil rights movement. After his assassination in 1968, he was memorialized by Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Dr. King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.
Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Through his activism and inspirational speeches, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational African-American leaders in history.
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
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