Peace Champion: Martin Luther King Jr.

Peace symbol c/o ABMC



Peace is indeed a word that has various meanings and people would come up with these meanings through different personal experiences and our way of understandings.

But according to www.wikipedia.com Peace was defined as a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility.

And from the past years and decades that had passed , there were famous and known people who totally and showed great exemption when it comes with the promotion of Peace for their countrymen, for everybody else and for themselves.

Because of it, St. Paul University Manila, Institutional Research Department, had actually conducted and created a list of prominent leaders and people that could be worthy of the title

" Peace Champion"

One of them, and the one whom I wanted to highlight more is none other than

" MARTIN LUTHER KING JR." 

                                  

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. born on January 15, 1929 was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.  He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. King is often presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism.

 for more information as to the life of King, watch : Biography

He was also a  Baptist minister, and became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington,in which his one of the most known controversy  speech "I have a dream" was delivered also on this day.

  

for full view of the transcribed speech visit:  full script

From there, he expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986.

What Martin Luther King Jr. showed was indeed a great power of courage and  sympathy to his countrymen and great love for others it is truly evident from his works and struggles and that is why until the present time, he is continually being viewed as a great hero and totally deserves to be called a Peace Champion.

 And from the exhibits that was presented in St. Paul Univerisity Manila, Martin Luther King Jr. didn't really failed to be one of the list to be place into consideration

During Exhibit in SPUM

Here is one last video presented by  Will I am and Martin Luther King Jr. the song -- I have a dream that was inspired from the struggle and experiences of Luther King himself)