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Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.