Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday to celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a pioneer in the fight for equal rights for Black Americans. This year,

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.