“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking during the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On the third Monday of each January in the U.S., we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Honor the image of God in every person you interact with today. Despite our differences, we are equals.