Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 2025

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Today, we honor the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an inspirational leader whose moral vision and courage helped bend the arc of history toward justice. And we recommit to building the future he envisioned. Dr. King's ministry, movement, and epic struggle for civil rights and voting rights sought to redeem the soul of our Nation. That soul is embodied in the sacred proposition that we are all created equal in the image of God. Dr. King invoked this proposition when, on that day in 1963, he told the Nation about a dream—a dream in which every person in this Nation is guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.…

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