Today, the third Monday in January, we Americans again commemorate the birth, life, and works of Martin Luther King, Jr. As proclaimed on January 9, 1987:
“In celebrating the birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we honor an American who recognized the great injustice of segregation and discrimination and made it his life's purpose and toil to right those wrongs in favor of justice, freedom, equality, fairness, and reconciliation.”*
The charge for us from this day remains the same as the charge in our Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
Continue the struggle for social, civil, and economic justice for all.
*https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5597-martin-luther-king-jr-day-1987