Monday; April 5
Fifty-three years ago, the nation was coming to grips with the shocking news that Dr. Martin Luther King had been assassinated. In the early evening of April 4, 1968 Dr. King was shot to death at his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This tragedy led to what ended up being an international manhunt for James Earl Ray who was arrested in June in London. Unfortunately, the death of Dr. King was just one event in a year that will be remembered as one of the darkest in U. S. history. One of more notable things about Dr. King is his quotability. He could really string together words to make people think. One of my favorite quotes comes from 1963 when he observed, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”. As often as these words have been quoted you would think that we would have figured them out by now, but have you noticed how they haven’t seemed to make as big of an impact as we would have hoped? Too often when w