Martin Luther King pushed us to be better: Letter

Nowhere is human arrogance more on display than when it energizes racial hatred.

Biological history is still something of a mystery, but its fundamental discoveries of common human evolution are well documented and reasonably understandable: Humans are more universally alike than especially different.

President Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. understood this and reached out to humanity to move beyond its ignorance and prejudice. They paid the ultimate price for their faithful insight, but their sacrifice moved us grudgingly to reach out to one another more than before their remarkable bravery.

God blessed us with their presence.

W.R. Lewis