With Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaching, it is important to celebrate his life and legacy. King used nonviolent protests to achieve equal rights for Black people, and through that, won awards such as the Nobel Peace Prize. His leadership also opened the door for better opportunities for education and employment for Black people.
Throughout King’s life, he delivered some of the most iconic speeches and quotes of the 20th century touching on problems going on in the world at that time, and some of those same problems are still occurring to this day. Today, we highlight one of his speeches in Montgomery, Alabama.
On March 25, 1965, King stood in front of 25,000 people at the Alabama state capitol to deliver his “Our God is Marching On” speech. This movement was the end of the civil rights protest known as the Selma March, where about 2,000 people marched from Selma to Montgomery for over three days to exercise their right to vote.
The words from his speech still resonate to this day as we continue to fight through racial injustices in the world.
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