MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., FEDERAL HOLIDAY, 2014: Each year, America sets aside a day to remember a giant of our Nations history and a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. During his lifelong struggle for justice and equality, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions, offered a redemptive path for oppressed and oppressors alike, and led a Nation to the mountaintop. Behind the bars of a Birmingham jail cell, he reminded us that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. On a hot summer day, under the shadow of the Great Emancipator, he challenged America to make good on its founding promise, and he called on every lover of freedom to walk alongside their brothers and sisters. Read more: whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/16/presidential-proclamation-martin-luther-king-jr-federal-holiday-2014
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