MLK’s dream is up to us

We’ll celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and legacy next week. In these angry and divisive times, we all could benefit by reminding ourselves of his words’ truth, civility and wisdom.

Too many of us are consumed with hatred and anger, which have reared their ugly heads in our public discourse lately. Dr. King, who endured hatred so ugly and excessive that it led to his assassination, spoke often of the futility of hating anyone or anything — of how hating harms the hater than the hated:  

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.”