We can make a Difference

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. By http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

Martin Luther King Jr. showed us that one person can make a difference. He believed that there can be peace and equal rights for all in this world. Everyone should be treated the same way. It did not matter what race you were, we are all the same. If you want to be treated nice you must start being nice and people will return the kindness. You must put yourself in others shoes to know how they feel. Empathy is important to understanding the world around us. Martin Luther King Jr. really believed that anyone can have a dream and make a dream come true.