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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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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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Just like habit-changers often relapse into their old habits over time, social movements often lose steam—and sometimes collapse entirely—if they don’t start to see change after some time. For instance, many people started giving up on the Montgomery bus boycott, until Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave an impassioned speech that convinced them to continue. Similarly, the small groups at Rick Warren’s church often spent their time discussing gossip—not the Bible—until Warren gave them a unified religious curriculum to follow. King’s speech and Warren’s curriculum demonstrate a crucial principle about how habits help social movements stay afloat. Just like individuals, Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae ea
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Character Timeline in The Power of Habit
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Chapter 8: Saddleback Church and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: How Movements Happen
After Rosa Parks’s arrest, E.D. Nixon called a young local minister, Martin Luther King Jr. , to explain what happened and ask for support. Then, he called dozens of others...
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...it was becoming harder and harder for them to go to work. Then, someone bombed Dr. King ’s house. A crowd formed outside, and the police asked King to calm them down....
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...with love and forgiveness. The movement grew stronger and stronger over time. Duhigg argues that Dr. King ’s teachings spread a new set of behaviors in the community. Through these behaviors, the...
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