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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so
tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright
daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”—Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech,” December 10, 1964
Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. was born on this date in 1929 in
Atlanta. Even in written form, his words cannot fail to move me. While he was
alive, his delivery set an oppressed people to march and break forever the
legal manacles of American apartheid, in the process inspiring nonviolent
protests against legally enforced bigotry elsewhere around the globe. Go to his memorial in DC, as I did one bright morning this past November
(and snapped this photo), and read the quotations on the walls. It’s enough to
make you know that even the most “starless midnight of racism and war” can’t
last forever.
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