The US civil rights activist's influence spread from the churches of the Deep South to the White House.
"Human beings cannot give or create life by themselves, it is really a gift from God," he wrote in 1977. "Therefore, one does not have the right to take away that which he does not have the ability to give."
— Source: BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx77214zz9eo)
