Legal Commentary

The Struggle Continues

By TChris

Jeffrey Harrell, a junior at Morehouse College, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

Today, there are still immigrants and women fighting for rights, there are people who are hungry and others without homes, Harrell said. "Until everyone is able to take part in what's called the American dream, the struggle's not done," he said.

Civil rights are for all of us. Barack Obama on Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

"We resolve that as we walk, we must walk together. And as we go forward in the work of renewing the promise of this nation, let's remember King's lesson -- that our separate dreams are really one."

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).