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MLK Jr. In His Own Words

. Posted January 17, 2005.


"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words ring true four decades after he spoke them.

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