Today is the day that we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. and his strivings towards equality for all. It has become a day when we not only celebrate a man, but the changes in a nation.
We have gone from a nation that believed that Native Americans were inferior and that people of darker skin could be treated like property 150 years ago, to a nation that believed that segregation was fine only 50 years ago, to a nation that is still struggling to define what equal rights are, but we are at least willing to try.
Did you have an ancestor who was an abolitionist? Perhaps you yourself knew a person who participated in protests for civil rights? Whatever your history, choose to be a person making the positive changes such as Martin Luther King, Jr. instead of satisfied with the status quo!
