civil rights 
Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 15:48:39 PM EDT
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Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 28, 1968, sermon preached at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Dr. King was not just a great individual leader. He was a moral force for organizing and for the struggle for justice. Sometimes he becomes "sanitized" in the re-telling of his impact. In his memory, we are encouraged to do good deeds and volunteer and repeat his inspiring words. All of these are beneficial. But Dr. King was (and is) much more.
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Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 11:36:21 AM EDT
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On April 4, 1968, I was visiting Washington, D.C. with my parents. I was a senior in college with a job awaiting me in Washington following graduation, and my parents were helping me during my spring vacation to look for an apartment to rent.
I got a telephone call in my hotel room from a college friend who was now a private in the Army, stationed at a military base in the southwest section of the District. “Turn on the television!” he said urgently. “Martin Luther King has been killed and Washington is burning!” In my parents’ hotel room, we watched television and, from the window, saw the smoke rising over the city. It seemed unbelievable that my college career was to be bracketed by two brutal tragedies, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and now of Dr. King. With protests against the war in Vietnam on the rise, the draft ready to snatch my male friends, President Johnson seeming ever more out of touch, and the cities burning, it truly felt that the country had lost its way.
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