Martin Luther King Day: 10 memorable MLK quotes

Monday is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. The civil rights leader was also one of the most famed orators in American history. Here are a collection of 10 MLK quotes.

9. 'Brothers'

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Martin Luther King Jr. gestures to his congregation in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., on April 30, 1967, as he urges America to repent and abandon what he called its 'Tragic, reckless adventure in Vietnam.'

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." –Strength to Love

King emphasized the link between all of humanity, which he used as a rationale to end both discrimination at home and the war in Vietnam.

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