Happy MLKing Day

The nation officially honors and remembers the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement. Dr. King fought for equal rights for Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s . He would have been 78 years-old today.

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts… Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at acceptance of 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.