A WONDERFUL LIFE.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., deserves a monument as resplendent as the one dedicated to his memory just yesterday, Sunday, October 16th, 2011, and situated in the National Mall, exactly where he made his famous speech, "I have a dream", on August 28th., 1963.

The late civil rights leader's life was one to envy by all men, as being a sacrifice that only a small number of people could lay claims to; a onerous sacrifice that just a few could undertake.

Like the person he molded his life on, he did not have to make that sacrifice. He was a preacher, who could just sit quietly in his Abyssinian Baptist Church, and minding his own business. There was no need for him to come out at all, for he was unequivocally safe where he was.

Yet, in the stillness of the night, he decided to join a people who were under political oppression. They were his people, and he had to do something to free them; honor them, by getting them out to live decent lives, and to have a dignified existence, instead of a mediocre kind of living.

He spoke against racism, and made his thoughts to conform with a noble philosophy that "Man's inhumanity to man must cease". He resisted against bigotry, that one was stupid or idiotic, if one has this or that color of skin; he railed against discrimination and against repression, and even against war, and against any kind of atrocity, all at the expense of his own life.

He did his best to couch a movement of non-violence to face a giant machinery of tyranny, which was loose in the streets of America and running over helpless people. He marched against the powers that be, and fought along side those who were deprived of their freedom in so many different ways, just because they were different. They could not sit here, and they could not eat there, and they could not use this bathroom; and on and on.

He "emancipated our minds and saved us from the bondage of our past,"; America's past that was riped with the history of slavery; even though, it (America) cherished "justice and liberty for all"; but in reality that was not true. It has failed miserably, over many centuries, for a section of its people.

Dr. King's life has enriched all humanity; just as his death has culminated into making easy for any determined person to educate himself of herself, and to be able to achieve the lofty goals in life. Racism, he knew, was still a problem, but one could ward it off through education. America could not have been better off without him.

The monument that President Barack Obama dedicated in his name, the Martin Luther King memorial, would symbolize, more than any other, the freedom that has always attracted people from the world over to embrace liberty and to reject serfdom. He was an inspiration for all mankind; and his achievements would be remembered forever.

His life has caused African Americans, particularly, to emulate the example that he set; a distinguished and selfless life of unimaginable quest for peace, liberty and justice throughout the whole world.

The Martin Luther King Memorial will always be an inspiration to all future generations.