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Martin Luther King Jr. quotes

1929–1968 · American civil rights leader

King led the American civil rights movement through non-violent protest. His speeches and letters are carefully documented by the King Center.

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3 quotes traced to Martin Luther King Jr.'s own work or a reliable witness.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Source: Letter from Birmingham Jail (16 April 1963)

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Source: Strength to Love (1963)

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

King was adapting a line by the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker (1853).

Source: Speech in Montgomery (25 March 1965)