“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

—  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968

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