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(Reuters) – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. :: Reflections on would do to promote civil rights in 2014, had he not been assassinated in 1968, marked speeches and commemorations held across the country to honor his memory on January 20, 2014.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said the late civil rights leader would want school children to hear it as a call to stay in school and become educated to better the world.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who swept into office promising broader opportunities for poorer residents, said at a tribute: “Dr. King would tell us we can’t wait” to bring income equality to New Yorkers.

In Atlanta, King’s daughter Bernice was applauded for her call to honor his message by making Monday a “no shots fired” day in the wake of school shootings and other gun violence across the nation.

Full article at:  http://www.reuters.com

 

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Donnie Wahlberg

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Day. Imagine the world today, if we hadn’t lost him, JFK, RFK & Malcolm X so tragically? http://t.co/VhjfhdsZIt

 

 

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Dr. Ben Carson

As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. let us pay more attention to the content of one’s character than the color of one’s skin.

 

 

 

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Marches, rallies and festivals were under way in San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area Monday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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St. Louis commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – fox2now.com

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St. Louis commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dayfox2now.comTo commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Archdiocese of St. Louis celebrated with a special mass Sunday afternoon. After the mass, Archbishop Robert Carlson present … Read more …

Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | DoDLive

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Our country has made great strides towards improving equality, and in many regards it’s because of one man’s ambition and accomplishment in the civil rights movement. Today, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Read more …

A Testament of Hope

“We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis’s Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. “But it really doesn’t matter to me now because I’ve been to the mountaintop. . . . And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”

These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his “promised land” of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet’s writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections.

A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.’s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more…

 

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