Quotations - Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
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Quotations - Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
I had also learned that the inseparable twin of racial injustice was economic injustice. Although I came from a home of economic security and relative comfort, I could never get out of my mind the economic insecurity of many of my playmates and the tragic poverty of those living around me. During my late teens I worked two summers (against my fathe
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Their cause must be our cause, too,” Lyndon Johnson said. “Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”