Martin Luther King Jr. - the best quotes from a great American orator

50 years on from the civil rights leader’s assassination, his intellectual legacy lives on

Half a century ago today, the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by a sniper as he stood on the balcony outside his hotel room in Memphis.

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