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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jayanthah" data-source="post: 1765326" data-attributes="member: 54616">It's been 40 years since great Dr Martin Luther King Jr sacrificed his life for the African-American people, He was a man who had done a lot of things to shape the wrld................for better, through his movement, the African Americans won the civil liberty in US & it was the turning point of colour descrimaination of the world.......................I started this thread as a tribute to this great man & also to educate people who doesnt know who Dr King was, please read articles in here & post a tributal note....................................On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn. King was in Memphis to support African—American sanitation workers, who were striking for better wages. His death set off a firestorm leading to riots in more than 100 cities, threatening to undo the lesson that King had patiently and consistently taught throughout his life: that non—violent resistance and adherence to conscience are the path to constructive change.King’s legacy as a leader in the civil rights movement is well—known, but at the time of his death, he had begun to tackle broader issues as well. He became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war, for instance, and he challenged what he saw as “the glaring contrast between poverty and wealth” in America and around the world. It was a period that saw him looking beyond the borders of the United States, giving weight to his claim that, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”Forty years later, what do we make of King’s death? Tragic, certainly, and far too early. For those who lived through it, the news was a “Kennedy” moment, a frozen instant in time that you will always remember because of its weight.In a broader context, King’s assassination is an example of the power of a moral idea to persevere, despite the best efforts of those who try to destroy it. It’s a reality that wasn’t lost on King. “Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate,” he wrote in his 1967 book “Chaos or Confusion: Where Do We Go From Here?”It’s a salient lesson, one that King demonstrated with his life. Forty years after James Earl Ray pulled the trigger on his rifle, King’s vision of an integrated America where people are judged by their character rather than their race remains the ideal. It is the idea that we struggle with, and strive for. For those who wants to learn more about Dr King..............<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr</a>.</blockquote>

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