01/20/2025
Here are two headshots of important men in United States history: Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year it happens to also fall on Inauguration Day. King was, as we all know, an outspoken man for equal and civil rights. His conviction, brilliance and eloquence had a profound impact on our country in recent history. He was assassinated on April 5, 1968. Another brilliant and eloquent man who was the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 7, 1861, for his first term. He held the country together through a brutal and unforgiving Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation (in 1863), and brought the Civil War to an end on April 9, 1865, only to be assassinated six days later on April 15. . . . In 1963 King said, "In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path." In 1865 said in his second Inaugural address, "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Let us all pray that soon, we will find these quotes and inspiration for us all in the United States of America.
