2020年马丁·路德·金日  

Honor纪念 

Baptist浸礼会教友 

Alabama阿拉巴马州 

Civil Rights Movement民权运动 

non-violent非暴力运动 

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

改变不会随着不可避免的车轮滚滚而来，而是通过不断的奋斗而来。 disobedience反抗 

seamstress裁缝 

transgression过失 

plight困境 

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." “重要的是生命的质量，而不是长度。” 

On the third Monday of each January, Americans honor the memory of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, a Baptist minister from the southern state of Alabama, was a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, advocating social change through non-violent means. On January 15th, he would have celebrated his ninety first birthday. Believing that "change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle," Dr. King organized and participated in mass-action boycotts, sit-ins, peaceful marches and other non-violent acts of civil disobedience. Dr. King once stated that "an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." And so, activists sometimes deliberately, but peacefully and respectfully, broke laws aimed at segregating the white citizenry from the non-white, thus hoping to bring attention to the inherent unfairness of such legislation. Thus, when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks broke the law in Montgomery, Alabama, by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, and subsequently was jailed for her transgression, her plight generated national attention and increasing sympathy for her cause across the country. 

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