Dr. Martin Luther King

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Dr. Martin Luther King
1929 - 1968
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1958 Arrested for "loitering" in Montgomery,
Alabama, Dr. King was manhandled by police.
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1960 In Atlanta, at the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference convention.
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1960 Leading a Demonstration Demanding a Strong
Civil Rights Plank in the GOP Campaign Platform,
in Chicago
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1960 King at a civil rights rally on the steps
of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
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1963 Addressing the huge gathering at the March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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1965 The watershed march from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama.
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1965 In early March, shortly before leading
civil rights demonstrators from Selma to
Montgomery, Ala., King attended a memorial
service for Reverend James Reeb, a white
clergyman from Boston who was killed by white
thugs in Selma.
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1966 King was a student of Mahatma Gandhi's
extraordinarily successful non-violent methods of
civil protest, and adopted them as a staunch
theme of the American civil rights movement.
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1968 Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. and children,
disembarking plane bringing the body of Martin
Luther King, Jr. home for burial in Atlanta.
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Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty
Im Free at Last
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a
descending spiral, begetting the very thing it
seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it
multiplies it. Through violence you may murder
the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor
establish the truth. Through violence you murder
the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate.... Returning
violence for violence multiples violence, adding
deeper darkness to a night already devoid of
stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness only
light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate
only love can do that. --Martin Luther King Jr.