MIDDLETOWN – “There was a time when America was looked upon as a beacon of democracy and other countries aspired to be what America was working towards,” said Bishop James Rollins of Middletown on the 97th anniversary of the birth if civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rollins says that does people hold that position anymore, nor does he think the U.S. administration cares anymore about if leaders of countries revere America as the leader of democracy around the world.
“We have to work as hard as we possibly can to ensure that we remember that our challenges to the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream involves doing everything that we possible can to peacefully avoid and combat more of the same that we saw in our unfortunate history,” Bishop Rollins said.
Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray while in Memphis, Tennessee, but his legacy lives on in the United States and across the world.
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