Commemorating Martin Luther King — part 1 of 6

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, UNMC Today will feature a series of photos and quotations from the civil rights leader. In today’s excerpt, King addresses freedom.

Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren and his sister, Brenda Council will make a joint presentation Monday, Jan. 17 at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center to commemorate the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. The program, also sponsored by the campus Employee Diversity Network, will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the Storz Pavilion on the lower level of Clarkson Tower. The program is free and open to campus staff, faculty and students. Free lunch refreshments will be served for the first 250 people in attendance.

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One-year old Martin Luther King, with his sister, Christine.

“Man is a being of spirit. An abiding expression of man’s spiritual nature is his freedom. Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.”

Taken from “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr.: An A to Z Guide to the Ideas and Ideals of the Great Civil Rights Leader.”