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Martin Luther King Jr. was influenced by many people. He was a Baptist and a minister, thus, his number one inspiration was Jesus Christ. He also really believed in the words of Abraham Lincoln, Reinhold Niebuhr, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Bayard Rustin, Howard Thurman, Paul Tillich and, Leo Tolstoy.

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