Martin Luther King

June 2008

 

 

 

 Martin Luther King

 

“We have learnt to fly as birds and swim as fishes, but we still haven’t learnt to live together”.


North-american pastor, Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was one of the great leaders of the american movement for civil rights and an advocate for pacific resistence to racial oppression. He fought for equal treatment and contributed imensely to the improvement of the african-american community’s situation, through pacific protesting and public speaking against racial inequality.