And... even if you don't witness the success, you can be sure that someone in the future will benefit from what you've given. That was certainly true for Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr., except for Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, may have done more to achieve political, social and racial justice than any other person.
MY ENCOUNTERS WITH MALCOLM X AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: HISTORIAN'S PERSPECTIVE -- Mon., Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m. -- Mercyhurst College, Taylor Little Theatre -- historian John H. Bracey Jr., distinguished professor of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst -- free, open to public -- details, 824-3027. POSTSECRET
Our overriding concern is for the safety of the visitors to the memorial, and there will be very large numbers ... Martin Luther King Jr. was a high-profile figure, and there are groups that are actively campaigning against the values that he espoused. We found quite a bit of that. It's a cause for concern.
It doesn't bother me if someone's trying to figure out what is the right thing to do according to God's plan ... The mere fact of someone trying to craft a policy that they think is in sync with what they think their religion or their God would want is fine. That's absolutely what Martin Luther King Jr. did ... It's what George Washington did.
Look at ‘X-Men.’ It’s a great allegory for the issue of racism. You’ve got two mutant camps, one in favor of assimilation with the human race and the other advocating revolution. It’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of ‘live as one’ and Malcolm X’s approach through subtext and allegory.
Harvey was our Martin Luther King Jr. — he stood up for our rights ... We need a Harvey Milk now. This movie reminds us what it's like to fight for our rights, something I think many of us have forgotten how to do.
There's not a great directional wayfinding system in downtown ... If you come in on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard into downtown, I'm not sure it would have been easy to find Lot 5 if you didn't know it was there.
Is Barack Obama’s election a realization of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream? Why or why not?
I do this all the time -- rent buses for trips -- but this is the biggest response I've ever seen ... People see this as a historical event. Many of them aren't old enough to remember Martin Luther King Jr., you know, they never saw him. They're looking on this as living history, their chance to see history being made.