Written By: Tony J. Spain January 19, 2026 97 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Ga. In his 39 years on this planet, the Baptist minister and civil rights leader, fought peacefully for equal rights while hatefully being spit on, attacked, imprisoned and eventually assassinated. It was his courage in his Christian faith rooted in the Gospel and Scripture, and his transformational leadership skills that were put into action through powerful peaceful conviction in the eternal truths of human dignity, moral law and individual character that his legacy will always be remembered. Most people remember Dr. King for his iconic “I have a dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the Summer of ‘63, a speech of beautiful goals and honest hope: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.” That sentence is not a slogan for division or ...