# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WIu0lDw5_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16446750-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-01-15T15:48:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."⁠
A voice that has continued beyond his lifetime, Martin Luther King Jr. was born on this day in 1929.⁠
The minister and civil rights leader is pictured here alongside his wife, activist and advocate Coretta Scott King, during the Selma to Montgomery marches of March 1965. ⁠
📷: Ben Martin/Getty Images | gettyarchive⁠
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