Fly Your Flag on Martin Luther King Day – January 19, 2009

Thomas Jefferson had it right when he wrote:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This sentence, probably one of the most quoted sentences in the Declaration of Independence signed on July 4, 1776, is the backbone of our country. Unfortunately, it took another 188 years before America started to live up to this self-evident truth. Martin Luther King, Jr., a driving force in the civil rights movement, should be thanked by all as when we stand up for the rights of all “men” in the universal sense, we perfect the words of our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence, we make this country a better place to live and we make ourselves better people in the eyes of others and our Maker.

We are all urged to fly the American flag on Martin Luther King Day to not only honor a man who gave his life in the struggle to obtain equal rights for African Americans but to honor our country for moving in the right direction on an issue that has so marred this Nation's great history.