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[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/01/16-martin-luther-king-quotes-to-remember/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 15/1/19] | [https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/01/16-martin-luther-king-quotes-to-remember/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 15/1/19] | ||
Today we honour the birthday of Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist and champion of non-violent resistance. Here we remember some of his more powerful words. | Today we honour the birthday of Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist and champion of non-violent resistance. Here we remember some of his more powerful words. | ||
=====Dr. Martin Luther King’s Moral Opposition to the Death Penalty===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/dr-martin-luther-kings-moral-opposition-to-the-death-penalty/ by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 20.1.25 Equal Justice Initiative] | |||
“Full grown white men committing comparable crimes against Negro girls are rarely ever punished, and are never given the death penalty or even a life sentence,” he said. But Jeremiah Reeves, “who was little more than a child when he was first arrested, died in the electric chair.” | |||
