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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace laureate
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. Oate
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