Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremist for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?
Sixty-three years separate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s authoring of his famous letter from today, and the urgency of his message still sadly rings as true now as I imagine it did then. I hope today is a reminder for all of us to live up to the ideal he set and that it is our responsibility to carry on his work.