Martin Luther King Jr.

            Martin Luther King was born January 15, 1929 when he was first known as Michael but later on changed his name to Martin. He lived in the city of Atlanta, Georgia where his father and grandfather were long time pastors at Ebenezer Baptist Church. King went to segregated schools where he graduated high school at the age of 15; then he received the B.A. degree in 1948 from the Morehouse College. King was a big name in the 1960’s in helping get rid of segregation and giving the “I Have a Dream” speech. He even earned the Nobel Peace Prize becoming the youngest man to receive it. Sadly in 1968 in the city of Memphis, Tennessee he was assassinated on the balcony of the motel he was staying at. King once said, “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.” What he meant by that is to help people learn you show them how to be an adult in the future, but at the same time give them the history of the past and present so they can teach it to others. Martin Luther King learned from his family and the segregated schools he went to plus all the times he went to church. With all that he learned, he took that to all the colleges he went to. After college he taught others what he had to learn and how to be better than that and make the future a better world for all of human kind. Without even knowing about this quote I myself have used his method. I learned from my parents, but at the same time I taught myself how to be a better human being. While at the same time being taught about the past and what’s happening in the present. I am hoping that in the future I can teach what I learned to people of the future so that they can make a better world for all of us. An example of this is when I was in high school, my dad would teach me about what he learned in his years of the Air Force. I would then take his learning’s and adopt them into my time in JROTC, where I would teach myself new things even my dad didn’t even know about. The things I learned in my three years of JROTC will follow me for the rest of my life. I will teach others how to show respect and get respect back, how to become a leader to others, and to never give up no matter how hard things get. Martin Luther King Jr. may have died a horrible way but his legacy lives on in all of us whether we are white, black, Asian, Hispanic or whatever.  King’s words speak loud and clear and one day everyone will live in peace and harmony just like he would want us.

                                                            Works Cited

              Bennett, Lerone, Jr. "Martin Luther King Jr." - Biography. 1964. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.            <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html>.