“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the p…”

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Title: Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Context

In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was "disturbing the peace" by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound : A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates

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Jr., Martin Luther King. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr.. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

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