[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H75]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and celebrate Dr. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.
  It is often said that his were the words of a giant who could 
galvanize all of America around the wonderful concept of the ``beloved 
community.''
  Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, and so many have come from his 
spirit, but I thought this year, in the midst of the very divisive 
fight for voting rights, we could just remember his marches, his words, 
believing in a dream, and recognizing the goodness of America.
  He marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He walked with our friend 
John Robert Lewis and his other friends Hosea Williams, Reverend Andrew 
Young, and Ralph David Abernathy. And he always thought that he could 
never give up, as he went to the White House with Lyndon Baines Johnson 
and insisted on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights 
Act.
  We must honor him in these coming days not by words and tributes but 
by doing the right thing, building on the democracy that he so much 
dreamed for, even though his life was cut short, and to thank his 
family--Martin Luther King III and all of his children and his wife--
for the sacrifice they made for America. I pay tribute to Dr. Martin 
Luther King, Jr.

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