Keep Running-How You Can Honor Martin Luther King Jr.

At a time when where you were able to sit on a bus was defined by your skin color, is where Martin Luther King was able to find his voice and unite a broken America. No matter the challenge, no matter the threats, no matter the slurs, nothing would stop Luther’s movement of equality. He started a fire of passion that burns today.

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward,” Martin Luther said.

High school can feel like the worst. It can be hard to want to keep going when homework you don’t understand is due, when friend groups change, and when life seems to just keep getting harder. How do you find the will to get out of bed when doing nothing is the only thing you feel like doing?

Think back to what Mr. King said. We can make progress. Walk over to someone who is having a bad day, crawl in virtually to support your team. Do anything to keep moving forward. Ask out that person, do that assignment because in the end, do you want to be known as someone who wasn’t a getter, or do you want to be a person responsible for change; a person worth knowing.

We can move forward by making progress everyday. By walking and even crawling forward to your goal, we can honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.