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Over the past several days, communities and residents across Western North Carolina celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with breakfasts, speeches, rallies, marches, prayer services and more.
Shown in the photo gallery below, Carolina Public Press photographer Colby Rabon’s photos captured some of the events in Asheville and Buncombe County organized by the Martin Luther King Association of Asheville and Buncombe County.
They included a rally, march and a candelight service, all of which attracted an estimated 700 residents.
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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK would have taken this next step, just as his wife Coretta and son Dexter did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ehL18rqlM?