Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Explore 5 approved quotes attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr..

About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yoichi Okamoto · Public domain

American minister and civil rights activist · 1929 – 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. was twenty-six when the Montgomery bus boycott made him a national figure, and thirty-nine when he was assassinated in Memphis. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in the margins of a newspaper, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. His later work on poverty and Vietnam was far less popular than the parts now quoted. He was a Baptist preacher first, and the cadence of the speeches is a pulpit cadence.

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