MLK Jr. Example Still Relevant

Martin Luther King Jr. stood up to injustice and in the process gave up his life for his beliefs. His moral example is still relevant at a time when violence and hatred have become increasingly the norm throughout the world:

From the time he first emerged as a civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived with the threat of death, but he never wavered in his commitment to non-violence.

Whether its standing up to hatred and injustice in the White House or among the people's of the Middle East and AFrica. The solution is non-violent protest and civil disobedience.

His response to violence should be a lesson to all of us:

A month after blacks began a bus boycott, a midnight caller warned King that he would be sorry he ever came to Montgomery. Three days later, his house was bombed.

Angry blacks gathered outside King's home, but Gray said, "Once he found out his family was safe and secure, he simply went out, talked to the crowd, and told them to go home, and they went."

If he were alive today he would speaking out against the war mongering of this White House and the violence going on between all sides in Israel and Iraq. It's a disgrace that we've forgotten his message