Monday, January 19th will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th Birthday. In 1964, Time Magazine name Martin Luther King Jr. their "Man of the Year".
Three decades after King was gunned down on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn., he is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. That assessment, while accurate, is far too restrictive. For all King did to free blacks from the yoke of segregation, whites may owe him the greatest debt, for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief. Had he and the blacks and whites who marched beside him failed, vast regions of the U.S. would have remained morally indistinguishable from South Africa under apartheid, with terrible consequences for America's standing among nations. How could America have convincingly inveighed against the Iron Curtain while an equally oppressive Cotton Curtain remained draped across the South?
One man come in the name of love One man come and go One man come, he to justify One man to overthrow
In the name of love One more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love?
One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love One more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love?
Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride
In the name of love One more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love? In the name of love One more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love?
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