I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, January 20, 2020, marks America’s 35th celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Honoring King with the sacred status of a federal holiday—of which there are only 10, none other named for a 20th-century figure—is a testament to the unifying power of his legacy.
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King’s most important work applied America’s Founding ideals to the cause of civil rights. The last best hope for true racial progress, King realized, was solidarity: For people to see and treat one another as equals, they had to feel the tugs of a bond far stronger than either race or politics.
For King, that bond was America.
After all, there are two words in the phrase “civil rights”—and King grasped that both are crucial. Civil rights are about the fair and equal participation of all citizens in the American community. For those rights to have any power, the bonds of that community must be close-knit and resilient.
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America’s promise of freedom and justice has guided our people through adversity to prosperity. Dr. King’s life and legacy stands as a testament to that promise, one rooted in the inalienable rights of mankind and a commitment to freedom from persecution.
2020 Proclamation from President Donald J. Trump
King’s greatest legacy is helping secure those rights while strengthening our national idea, not undermining it. He understood that so much of our country’s racial history, from the Civil War to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, was not a rejection of American values. To the contrary, these episodes were parts of a long struggle to live up to our Founding ideals of equality, liberty, and democracy.
“I criticize America because I love her,” King said in a speech about the Vietnam War, “and because I want to see her to stand as the moral example of the world.”
For those reasons and more, King’s story is worth remembering. President Donald J. Trump wants to ensure that legacy lives on for generations of Americans. In January 2018, he signed H.R. 267 into law. Named the “Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act,” the law redesignates a National Historic Site in Georgia—the state where King was born—as the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.
President Donald J. Trump hands a pen to Isaac Newton Farris Jr., a nephew of slain Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after signing a proclamation in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
This year, the President signed a proclamation on January 17 that officially designated the following Monday as the “Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday.”
Conservatives and liberals alike can learn from King’s example. “In the United States of America, every citizen should have the opportunity to build a better and brighter future,” President Trump’s proclamation from 2019 reads. “United as one American family, we will not rest — and we will never be satisfied — until the promise of this great Nation is accessible to each American in each new generation.”
The past few years have been especially important in our work to live up to Dr. King’s dream. As 2018 came to a close, President Trump signed the historic, bipartisan First Step Act into a law. First Step prepares inmates to successfully rejoin society, and it enacts commonsense reforms that will make our justice system fairer for all Americans.
In 2019, President Trump built on that success by promoting second-chance hiring—an opportunity for Americans to live with dignity and meaning after they serve their time. The President mobilized resources across his Administration and worked with the private and non-profit sectors to help give former prisoners a second chance at the American Dream.
The premise—and promise—of King’s dream is that we don’t need to replace or transform our Nation’s shared ideals to make our country a better place.
We simply need to live up to them.
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MLK is rolling in his grave today, as he sees the persecution of conservatives and realizes that in America, ALL men ARE still NOT created EQUAL in the eyes of this nation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-frans-reparations-committee-proposes-5-million-each-longtime-black-resident-total-debt-forgiveness
“MLK is rolling in his grave today, as he sees the persecution of conservatives”
and how he sees what those who claim to have inherited his mission are doing with it………
Editorial cartoons at the time:
https://i.redd.it/l3dwl4j1tcc81.jpg
Sure looks familiar to your criticisms today.
Man, the right really hasn’t updated their playbook in 60 years, huh?
here fixed that fer ya:
Man, the
rightLeft reallyhasn’t updatedmoved their playbook towards hard Communism in 60 years, huh?Calling your opponents Communists?
Yep, that’s in the playbook too.
https://gazette.com/news/righteous-martin-luther-king-was-slandered-as-a-communist-david-ramsey/article_aeeb29ac-c3ad-11ea-956e-e7ccd4fb0784.html
and who was president in 1965?
Lady Bird
…but they ARE Communists
So, there’s that.
who is they?
the left
He was a greatly flawed man, but was sincere to a noble cause unlike today’s insincere divisive leaders who inherited his legacy…
at lest he didn’t sleep with his Village council mates
He pretty much slept with everyone else.
He was NOT a great husband.
He was a serial philanderer.
like past councilmembers in Ridgewood or the current VP ?
YES!
No matter how much free s*’t the govt hands out, white liberals will never be happy!
sure… Liberals have no work ethic or moral center.
Megan Markle is carrying on MLK’s legacy by tackling racial issues, not only in the USA, but in England too. This is important work and progress.
lol…..
Laughable.