Dr. King

The history of the United States of America reveals that US citizens, like those of the rest of the world, have struggled to define equality and to defend those principles which assure that equality will be the legal right of all of its citizens regardless of race, color, creed, religious affiliation, political alignment, national origins, economic status, educational level, marital status, or gender. The struggle for equality ha not always been moral when measured against the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence or legal under the Constitution of the United States. At various times specific groups of citizens have been subjected to discrimination based upon one or more of the characteristics used by the nation as a whole, states in general, and townships in particular to separate citizens into groups which have authority under the law to control the actions of those without authority. When those without aut...