Hoy se celebra un dia digno de conmemorar en toda su estatura: Martin Luther King's Day.

 

Defensor de la desobediencia civil, defensor de la paz, defensor de la conquista de los derechos civiles POR METODOS PACIFICOS, Martin Luther King fue un gran heredero de las ideas de Gandhi.

 

Mi homenaje personal para tal prohombre... y mi suenno aun no realizado de que podamos vivir en paz, con nuestras discrepancias y opiniones disimiles y versatiles, pero en paz y con la elevada meta de pensar mas en los demas que en nosotros mismos... y en el RESPETO A LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y LAS LIBERTADES Y DERECHOS CIVILES.

 

De Wikipedia (para evitar distorsiones de los que reescriben la historia a su acomodo, siempre pongo las fuentes. Hay cientos, miles...  )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a famous leader of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, and a Baptist minister. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races). On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday, only the fourth Federal holiday to honor an individual (the other three being in honor of Jesus of Nazareth, George Washington, and Christopher Columbus). In 2004, King was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. He was known as a great public speaker.^[1] Dr. King often called for personal responsibility in fostering world peace.^[2] King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..

"I Have a Dream" is the popular name given to the historic public speach by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.^[1] According to U.S. Congressman John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed [not just] the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."^[2]

Legend holds that King departed from his prepared text and began preaching extemporaneously, but he had delivered a similar speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.^[3]