Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Born Michael King, on January 15 1929 in Georgia, United States and assassinated on April 4 1968. He was a Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian and leader of The African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He received his B.A. degree in sociology and a PH.D degree in systematic theology, with a dissertation.
His legacy was to secure progress on civil rights. The American Congress passed the civil Rights Acts in 1968. He has become a national icon in the history of American Liberalism and Progressivism.
In his commitment to non violence, even though he initially believed and practiced self-defense, he vowed to no longer use arms, believing that non violent resistance would better accomplish his goals.
He promotes critical thinking in schools. "The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.", "The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living."
Question capitalism. "Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social."
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