From Twitter to MLK: Happy Birthday!

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January 15, 2013

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Today, the day he would have turned 84 years old, Twitter is abuzz with everything from his most inspirational and still-applicable quotes to statements mourning that he is no longer with us. Here are just a few:

MLK was killed in Memphis fighting for the wages of sanitation workers. Not hedge fund managers. Not rappers. GARBAGE MEN. #MLKDay
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) January 15, 2013

"America will never be free until the descendants of her slaves are freed completely from the shackles they still wear" #MLK
— DR. BROWN-DEAN (@KBDPHD) January 15, 2013

#MLK would have been 84 years old today. He reasonably could've lived to this age. We were robbed of at least 45 years of his activism.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) January 15, 2013

https://twitter.com/idealist/status/291186723801690114

Happy Birthday to a man who was born in Atlanta, boycotted in Montgomery, and died in Memphis. Cheers to you, you Southern Gentleman.. #MLK
— Ayo MYKE! (@Bravo_Romeo3) January 15, 2013

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