For those of us in the states, today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day…a time to remember a man of incredible stature and vision. I try to read a bit more about MLK each year and spend at least a few minutes on this day reflecting on how far we’ve come in my lifetime towards reaching his goals…and reflecting on how much further we have to go until we’re truly “there.” Here’s a quote from a great MLK biography that I stumbled upon.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.
What a great man….peace y’all.
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