Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. - The Measure of a Man, 1958
Those words ring as true today as it did then, we still walk around in the light failing to to see the shadows that are all around us, ignoring the children of the shadows. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood not for the freedom and justice of black American’s, but for all of mankind, for the children of the world. It was the words of one man that helped to change a nation, and his words must not be ignored today, we must remember to look into the shadows to see those in need.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once said ” A right delayed is a right denied.”, and here we sit on the 40th anniversary of his death, and across the globe people are still waiting for their rights. Children who are born into a world without rights, children who are denied their rights and children whose rights are delayed as there just isn’t enough resources, laws, awareness… Will we learn from those who come before us, from those who have faced the battles so that we may have a better future?