MLK Day 2020

Today is the official holiday commemorating King's birth on January 15, 1929. From the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington:

I doubt our Founding Fathers ever expected the American experience they created to be an easy one to maintain. Furthermore, I doubt they expected it to evolve outside the freedoms they enshrined in the rule of law. Much of what King did, much of what he said about equality and peaceful change operated within that context. Although there is much debate on whether or not he would have maintained that posture had he lived, his legacy lives on to help us perfect our union. As a people we pay a huge price for focusing on what divides us rather than on what unites us. The erosion of political discourse over the past three years is a daily reminder of that cost  As Americans we should stop talking and listen to the wisdom of this great preacher. 

More about this day, the man, and his legacy can be found at the King Center website and that of the Martin Luther King National Historical Park.

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Photos and Illustrations:
Public domain photo, Nobel Foundation (http://nobelprize.org/) and Wikimedia Commons