There is no way to measure the impact Dr. King had on America and the world. No way. But then that's the way it usually goes with those who stand above and take on challenges no one else would even try. There work is usually immeasureable at least in the short term. And it is amazingly predictable that we kill those who rise above. History is replete with such.
Dr. King was a prophet in the truest sense of the word. A Priest speaks from the people to God. A prophet speak from God to the people. And that's what he did. There are lot of wanna be prophets today who use television and the internet to try to be "prophet-like." They're always telling us what God told them to say and do and therefore we are to heed and follow. But by comparison, they are a paltry lot.
MLK wasn't perfect, he had his vices, like the rest of us. But he was (in my humble opinion) a real prophet who impacted our society more than any one person in my lifetime and he was Dead at 39 years of age.
May his memory and his work live on.
Selah
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