Rarely have men of such towering moral stature as of Dr. King graced humanity. America is a greater nation because of him and we all are better human beings because of his actions and words, which will remain enshrined in our collective consciousness for all times to come. Dr. King once said that we will forget Gandhi at our own peril. We will forget Dr. King at our own peril.
The battles of social justice that he spearheaded may have changed their outer look but the underlying challenges persist in even more complex forms. Dr. King may not have given us the solutions to all our problems but, more importantly, he perfected a method to tackle them. As students of nonviolence we believe that the Civil Rights Movement under Dr. King's stewardship was a marvelous exhibition of nonviolent transformation.
Today we remember this great son of America as an inspiration for all across the globe still believing in the potency and moral superiority of the nonviolent method. Success may take long but it will arrive. We must persevere like he did.
Peace.
Rohit.
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At the time of his death, Dr. King was a nationally recognized living legend. One would presume that he would begin working at the higher levels and let his followers deal with smaller issues across the country.
Yet, Dr. King was still focused on the common man. He was in Memphis is support of a sanitation worker's strike which had been organized after 22 black sanitation workers had been sent home without pay while white workers were kept on the job with pay.
This for me just epitomizes what this great man meant to America and Civil Rights. He was not a man who aimed for power. This is obvious from his continued focus on the problems of the common man. Just as Gandhi, even when fretting over the birth of a nation, still focused on specific problems across the country, so did Dr. King keep his eyes on the prize: Improving the lot of the common man one life at a time.
Appropriately, NPR has captured the voice of one man who's life was changed during this tumultuous time: Standing With Dr. King in Memphis
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