Day for a King

I remeber ronalds reagans face when he signed the holiday into law.the look on his face was priceless,uter disgust.you can,t remeber kings dream without remebering the race and class issue in america.institutional racism is alive and well.lets work on making this dream a reality

The stuggle is not over.i hear whites all the time trying to mix kings legacy with affirmative action.fix schools so all can be educated equally.it is not blacks who have a problem with kings dream.

read my comment below

The soft force of mind and heart is dignity! Freedom is self worth. Everyone should be able to render their value well in life. Power is life. Blend of people of self worth is glory to be aware that express love peace and joy as force of being. Develop people are soft force that blend in nature to give and take to make possible for each other to enjoy the gift of life from all there is! This is command called freedom that creates sweetness out of the will to live as give and take. Thus is live and let live!

i have to say,judging by the comment below mine...i didnt know it was africanj american holiday or latin holiday? what is it musicbuena? i thought m.l. king was about peace between all people, not saying ,, why do my kids have to go to school today? it is a day to remember that someone said..lets all get along..lets all do whats right and live together as one nation. lets forget the past and live in the now.. we are all here,,,,NOW.. so lets all look at each other as US. not as african americans,not as whites, not as latinos, not as any other imigrant that has ever come in this country. we are all here,, in america. we have all been through 9\11 , the gulf war, the war we are all fighting now,,, call it what you want..but we all have opinions, thats what makes america great,, we can ALL live here. maybe there will be a day when we can all walk down the street and not see color or religion. i hope it comes soon, cuz if it dosent ,,,,then we have people like you, that use a day, (martan luther king jr) day, to ,, just get the day off. i'd rather work the day. cuz it shows,, not that i dont respect the guy...but that i respect the guy,,and go to work...well everyone take care..thanx..except the guy that made me write this,, but to him,, hope you had to work and it was like another day, just like all the rest,, cause thats what m.l. king.jr was saying,. we are all the same...gnite

Hello, my name is Rafael Gonzalez I live in Logansport Indiana, I have 3 daughters they were born in New York City, while in New York they never had school during martin Luther King day but when moved to Indiana Today they have to go to school and they are not happy, Why not celebrating this days if we have a lot of Black and Spanish students at Logansport Indiana, please email this school why they dont celebrate this day, Thanks

Dr. King was not the brightest or most astute student in school. When he was at Morehouse College, President Mays remarked in that, "Martin has a very brilliant mind, and will go a long way in life." At age 15, Martin was in a speaking contest. In it he said, "And with my brothers' blackest hue, possessing my African heritage, holding my head erect will stand among the Saxons, with head high and erect, a Negro and yet a man." As Martin grew in stature and in wisdom, certainly he reflected on that 15-year-old speech he made. He endured more than most men.
When Rosa Parks sat on the Montgomery, Alabama bus, and he became the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, great responsibilities were placed upon him. The hate and arrogance as well as haters of color, induced a weak-minded black woman to stab him in New York. But a white girl wrote to him, "The doctor said if you had sneezed, you would have died. I am glad you did not sneeze." Dr. King knew then that hate had no race or color, and love and peace could change the attitudes of the most evil mind.
I would like to relate an incident that I witnessed, as a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and as a board member, we were arranging the celebration of our 50th anniversary in Philadelphia, and Dr. King was to deliver the main address. He was in New York, and would come to Philadelphia by train, and he could be picked up at Philadelphia's 30th St. Station. The president, Mrs. Anna Lee Stuart, asked me to go with the driver of the car to pick him up. As she was engaged in conversation with me, she said, "Please ask Dr. King to speak against the Vietnam War." Of course, I promised her I would. In meeting him, we talked as he settled down in the car, and I said, "Dr. King, President Stuart told me to ask you to please, in your speech, speak against the Vietnam War." Silence fell in the car. He placed his hands under his chin, and did not utter a word for at least 30 seconds. Then he said, "The time is not right. When that time comes, I will hit it." And hit it, he did. From the podium, and the pulpits, from the auditoriums, to the athletic fields, he told the nation of the ungodly war for the profits of the chosen few.
The incident of Dr. King's silence made me know, that he was in touch with God, Who guided him. When Dr. King was killed, we were all saddened. Many of us, angry. But like all of us, we are here for a purpose. We have a quota to fill, and when we have completed that task, our Maker says, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things: Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." God did not want Dr. King's enemies to destroy him. But before leaving us, Dr. King to a degree changed the course of the entire world.

The following is a statement issued by Amelia Boynton Robinson, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, 2008. During the 1960s, Mrs. Robinson's home and office in Selma, Alabama became the center of that city's famous civil rights battles, used by Dr. King and his lieutenants, by Congressmen and attorneys from around the nation, to plan the demonstrations that would lead eventually to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1964, she was the first female African-American ever to seek a seat in Congress from Alabama, and the first woman, white or black, to run on the Democratic ticket in the state. Amelia Robinson today is a leading member and Vice Chairman of the Schiller Institute, founded by Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in 1984. Mrs. Robinson considers the Institute to be "following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King."
Almost 40 years ago, since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, the world has gone through many phases of changes, physically, degradation of our world; educationally, corruption in the public schools; socially, a little more race tolerance; and morally, many young people have lost faith in the future. Often in speaking of the 1950s and '60s, the name Martin Luther King permeates most conversations especially on his birthday, and Black History Month, which is February. Dr. Martin Luther King's messages were inspired by One Who was greater than he, that is, by God. My experience riding with him, made me realize this. He was this country's philosophical spiritual leader, a role model, father, husband, and as well as a son. Thus, as this kind of leader, he inspired millions worldwide to love, rather than hate, do unto others as they would have done unto them.
Dr. King was not the brightest or most astute student in school. When he was at Morehouse College, President Mays remarked in that, "Martin has a very brilliant mind, and will go a long way in life." At age 15, Martin was in a speaking contest. In it he said, "And with my brothers' blackest hue, possessing my African heritage, holding my head erect will stand among the Saxons, with head high and erect, a Negro and yet a man." As Martin grew in stature and in wisdom, certainly he reflected on that 15-year-old speech he made. He endured more than most men.