Martin Luther King, Jr. stressed our common humanity, which would have made him unpopular with almost everyone today.
Narrated by Jared Moore
Art by Daniel Medina
Text published 01/19/25:
Martin Luther King, Jr. is the Leader We Need
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In 1901, the tomb of Abraham Lincoln underwent a renovation and the murdered ex-president had to be exhumed and re-buried. Lincoln’s reputation around the world at the time was such that a German statesman named Ernst von Stackelberg traveled to the estate of 73-year-old Leo Tolstoy to ask him to write an article in commemoration. Tolstoy declined, but gave an extraordinary opinion about the American.
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