Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a world-renowned Black minister and activist who helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and, later, the broader U.S. civil rights movement. Duhigg argues that Dr. King helped the boycott succeed by instilling new values and habits of nonviolent protest in Montgomery’s Black population. (Eventually, Duhigg believes, King’s leadership set off a similar process in the U.S. public as a whole.)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes in The Power of Habit
The The Power of Habit quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or refer to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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This is the third aspect of how social habits drive movements: For an idea to grow beyond a community, it must become self-propelling. And the surest way to achieve that is to give people new habits that help them figure out where to go on their own.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes in The Power of Habit
The The Power of Habit quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or refer to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8
Quotes
This is the third aspect of how social habits drive movements: For an idea to grow beyond a community, it must become self-propelling. And the surest way to achieve that is to give people new habits that help them figure out where to go on their own.
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