Back when the adults were in charge and before the “me” President.
Via CNS News
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday into law on Nov. 2, 1983. Speaking from the Rose Garden of the White House that day, President Reagan highlighted the bus-boycott started by Dr. King in 1955 that ended segregation on public transportation in America.
Reagan also cited several other examples of MLK’s tremendous accomplishments towards ending racial division and noted that his cause was rooted in the teachings of the Bible – King was an ordained Baptist minister — about the dignity of every human being.
“So, each year on Martin Luther King Day, let us not only recall Dr. King, but rededicate ourselves to the Commandments he believed in and sought to live every day: Thou shall love thy God with all thy heart, and thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself,” said Reagan.
“And I just have to believe that all of us—if all of us, young and old, Republicans and Democrats, do all we can to live up to those Commandments, then we will see the day when Dr. King’s dream comes true, and in his words, ‘All of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, ‘… land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.'”