Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #1343

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Caption from poster__ 

 

 

" I submit that an individual who breaks

 a law that conscience tells him is unjust,

 and who willingly accepts the penalty of

 imprisonment in order to arouse the 

 conscience of the community over its 

 injustice, is in reality expressing the 

 highest respect for the law."

 

 

 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a famous leader of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, and a Baptist minister. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races). On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. He was known as a great public speaker.  Dr. King often called for personal responsibility in fostering world peace.[2] King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

 

 

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