“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
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Strength to Love, 1963
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About Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister and civil rights leader who transformed America through nonviolent resistance and moral courage.
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This quote speaks to the pillar of Legacy — the understanding that what you build outlasts you. Every generation of Black leaders has planted trees whose shade they would never sit in.
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