mlk

Martin Luther King Jr. is clearly a very important person in history. The man has an entire national holiday named in his memory! But does everybody find him THAT important these days? Many people have decided (though most of them would be way too scared to say anything) that Martin Luther King Jr. is only remembered because he was killed. Martin Luther King Jr. is the most well known civil rights leader to be assassinate, but is he only the most well known because he was shot? NO. MLK Jr. is probably the best natural born leader to live in the 20th century. He used his skill to achieve his goals as well as the goals of others. He led an entire race to better (not complete) equality. He kept his people together and told them to keep holding on as they were brutally beaten and treated horribly. These days, MLK is remembered as a civil rights leader, but he was so much more than that. In a way, Martin Luther King Jr. is the modern equivalent of the Apostle Paul (as he says in his letters from a Birmingham jail) and other religious leaders/messengers of the past. I'm not saying that he had as much of a world altering effect as the Apostle Paul's spreading of the gospel, but he altered his tactics to fit the time period and was extremely successful. MLK day is not just the memory of a famous civil rights leader; it is the memory of a great leader, a great messenger, and a great MAN.