To the editor:
The strength of Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership was in his clarion call to all religions and races in our American society to rise up together to defeat injustice and the demeaning of the American dream of liberty and equality for all. It was under that banner that Jew and Gentile, people of every color and walk of life, could march together shoulder to shoulder down our American streets.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian and a preacher, but when he called us all to stand up for justice and righteousness, his dream was described in a universal vision that enlisted us all.
We lessen and demean this man's great teachings, and the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded, and the celebration and holiday which are in his honor, if the message we hear today in his name, alienates or circumscribes one single American who wants to celebrate it.
And we violate the spirit of the great First Amendment to our U.S. Constitution whose Fifth and 14th Amendments were strong enough and firm enough to uphold his dream.
Hilda Enoch,
Lawrence
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