Martin Luther King

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Biography

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born to Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King's original name was Michael Luther King Jr., but…more

Born

1/15/1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Died

4/4/1968

Birth Name

Michael Luther King, Jr.

Gender

Male

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    • Dr. King was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which was responsible for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was Vice President of the National Sunday School and the Baptist Teaching Union Congress of the National Baptist Convention, as well. He was also elected to membership in a number of learned societies, such as the American Academy of Arts and Science.
    • In 1964, Dr. King was the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize, at the age of 35. He announced that he would give the prize money, which was $54,123, to support the civil rights movement, when he was told of his selection.
    • 6 books were written by Martin Luther King Jr. during his lifetime, as well as quite a number of articles.
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    • Martin Luther King Jr: Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
    • Martin Luther King Jr: This is what I try to teach in the struggle in the South, that we are not engaged in a struggle that means we sit down and do nothing, there is a great deal of difference between non-resistance to evil and non-violent resistance. Non-resistance leaves you in a state of stagnant passivity and deadly complacency, where non-violent resistance means that you do resist in a very strong and determined manner. And I think some of the criticisms of non-violence or some of the critics fail to realize that we are talking about something very strong and they confuse non-resistance with non-violent resistance.
    • Martin Luther King Jr: True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.