Quotations from Martin Luther King

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Quotations from Martin Luther King

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Letter from Birmingham jail, Alabama, 16th April 1963

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia

The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of Brotherhood…

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King -Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28th August 1963

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 “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

Speech at St Louis, 22nd March 1964

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land….So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.”

Speech in Memphis 3rd April 1968 (the day before his assassination)

      MARTIN LUTHER KING (1929-1968)

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15th 1929, ...

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