Martin Luther King Jr.

More from Martin Luther King Jr.

• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.

  • Friendship

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)

  • Justice

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

  I Have a Dream (1963)

  • Race

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