“We have come a long, long way, but we still have a long, long way to go before racial justice is a reality in our nation.”Ī long way to go, indeed. “You need only open your newspapers, or we need only turn on our televisions, day in and day out, and there’s usually something to remind us that no section of our country can boast of clean hands in the area of brotherhood,” Dr. Consider the themes he addressed: Voting rights. King’s inspiring, eloquent words reverberate in contemporary ears. In listening to this historic speech on integration, it is striking how powerfully Dr. King frequently accepted such requests, believing, as our university community has always believed, that society’s young people are key, in his words, to “extending the frontiers of civil rights.” As you may know, he addressed our university community, and the broader Western New York community, in the fall of 1967, at the invitation of UB’s graduate and undergraduate student associations. With today’s national remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., I hope, in equal measure, that you will set aside time to reflect on his life and legacy.Īs part of this reflection, I invite each of you to listen to the speech that Dr. I hope this email finds you well at the start of the New Year, and as we look toward the start of UB’s spring semester.
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