Am sure in past years my thoughts have been more around big vision from Martin Luther King Jr., as in the,

I Have A Dream speech…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream?wprov=sfti1

And that’s legit to be sure. I’ve had tears rolling down my face more than once listening to that speech, like when I was visiting a memorial to Dr. King in Birmingham twenty years back.

But certainly as inspired is all the work and leadership King provided otherwise.

The marches to Montgomery, facing evil on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,

The time he spent in jail because of his activism,

His Letter From A Birmingham Jail,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail?wprov=sfti1#

With inspired words,

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justiceeverywhere.”

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly […] Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”

So much to consider… indeed, not just consideration for African Americans in the US,

But oppressed people everywhere,

Thank you, Martin Luther King, Jr.