Martin Luther King is a man who changed the way we live. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian activist who became the most well known public speaker and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence. His inspiration was Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, Gandhi was trained in law at the Inner Temple, London. Enough about Gandhi, let’s talk about MLK. I think that he is a great person to have the courage to go up there and talk about something that many people back then can get very angry at. You dont know what could have happend during his speech. Martin Luther King has given people freedoms that never would have been imagened of by white people.