Today in the United States, people are celebrating a great Civil Rights legend in American history, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who can be considered a major leader in the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as a person has inspired many people around the world and I just want to create a thread dedicated to him.

Memorable Quotes:

-"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."

-"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."

-"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

-"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

-"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

-"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

-"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."


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