There's a reason Obama called for a national day of service in honor of King's birthday this year. His messages of tolerance ad equality are more important now than ever. I could go down a list of what I would consider civil rights violations for women, LGBTQA persons, and minorities, but I wont. Not because I feel like it would incite an argument or something like that, but because we can all think of at least one. These issues are things that I feel like Dr. King's philosophy would advocate that we fight for.
Dr. King was assassinated. He died and yet his ideas lived on. Ghandi will never be forgotten for his bravery and pacifism. Dr. King will be remembered the same way. His goal would still be unfulfilled if class determined your access to services, glass ceilings and discriminatory hiring techniques were put in place, and people were unable to get to the life they wanted not because of their own abilities being lacking, but because they weren't given the chance to succeed in the first place.
No ones work is ever complete, and people can be powerful even, no, perhaps even because of their deaths. He died fighting for what he believed for, because people wanted to stop that. I don't think King will be dethroned for a very long time.
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