In his incredibly brief but profoundly impactful life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave dozens of speeches and sermons, and wrote multiple essays.
Within those are innumerable quotes on his beliefs about civil rights, racism and poverty, and fighting for and against them in a nonviolent way.
Yet every year, on the third Monday of January in the United States, we are subjected to people who take to social media for their seemingly obligatory annual post in memory of MLK. People who have no interest in King’s teachings or actively work to undo the marginal gains achieved during his life and since his death.