Commemorating Martin Luther King — part 4 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 discusses the struggle for freedom.

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 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. The free program will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the Storz Pavilion. Free lunch refreshments will be served for the first 250 people in attendance.

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Martin Luther King Jr., with Dexter, Yolanda and Coretta.

“Due to my involvement in the struggle for the freedom of my people, I have known very few quiet days in the last few years. I have been imprisoned in Alabama and Georgia jails twelve times. My home has been bombed twice. A day seldom passes that my family and I are not the recipients of threats of death. I have been the victim of a near-fatal stabbing. So in a real sense, I have been battered by the storms of persecution.”

Taken from “The Martin Luther King Jr. Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Selected by Coretta Scott King, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1993.