Jeffrey Montgomery vs. Martin Luther King Jr.
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jeffrey Montgomery
1953 – 2016
Jeffrey Montgomery was an American LGBTQ activist and public relations executive. In 1984, his partner, Michael, was shot to death outside a Detroit gay bar, prompting Montgomery to engage in LGBT advocacy. He started work on LGBT anti-violence issues upon learning that the police were not spending many resources on solving the murder, "just another gay killing".
"It's going to be a heartbreaking moment for these couples, to come face to face with this discrimination against them."
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."